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This poem is taken from PN Review 44, Volume 11 Number 6, July - August 1985.

Sway Yu Jin Ko

The women planted elm trees
                   packing down loose dirt
                                 with their hands
And the children hung garlands
                          white-flowered, heavy
          circling the lower branches

And they waited
        tending the fire
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