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Pumpkins

December 20, 2009 by · No comments

By Changming Yuan

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Photo: Muffet

Arhats
squatting around in a fast fading field

all flushed with protests
against frost coming simply too soon

Buddha means you
to guard an entire season
but we mean you
to guard our houses

the last of an orange-streaked landscape
the last to ripen

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