Poetry / June 2012 (Issue 17)


Resurfacing a Football Pitch, Shanghai

by Michael Gray

East of a Metro line,
workers in straw hats squat
after the rain. They strip turf
and lay fresh mats, lining old ones
along the athletic track
like rice sheaves drying for harvest.
 
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