Chinese Fractures
Extract: from Fractures (Tapsalteerie, 2016)
on the wind cumin and pepper we break bread
in mountain mist we eat dumplings that moment, ripe
even in Shanghai the tang of single malt
after the Maoist rhetoric the doorman’s ‘Merry Christmas’
New Year in Beijing beneath red flags Audis run the lights
snow falls on Tiananmen Square ‘spring comes soon’
The last few copies of Fractures are available from the publisher, Tapsalteerie.