This poem is taken from Stand 242, 22(2) June - August 2024.

Jan Owen Bamboo Yards, Kyo Bridge
      after the woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige

These stacks, overlays, lattices, piles and props
                         buttresses, scaffolds and levered
swerves of lightweight
                   hollow, cunning resilience
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