This poem is taken from Stand 224, 17(4) December 2019 - February 2020.

Ricardo Pau-Llosa Three Poems
Hiroshige, Kyobashi Bridge and Bamboo Yards (1857)

A pictograph of bridge, moon and merchant
caught Whistler’s eye. We are drawn instead
to the presaged skyline of our time, the burdened
nets of rationed clouds, the hard-edged
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