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Well-Known Corners of the People
Contain
by
Lisa Collyer
I am a bowl
etched in bamboo culms, clump and contain
the forest he ran through
when you were his Takeuma.
I cradle you,
porridge and pickled plums; recall
the whistling grass and cherish something
to hold onto.
*Takeuma – Japanese traditional toy, i.e. bamboo stilts