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Amy Barry - Chang Cheng

from One Minute Poems by Rancid Idols Productions

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Chang Cheng
A tribute to The Great Wall.


Every stone is a story.
winding upward,
trembling the bottled water I carry.

Leaning over the railing,
I’m clothed to the waist in bricks.
The trail meanders over hills,
twists down into darker forms.

And in the darkness of weary eyes
I unearth the past.

Bodies straining,
hands and backs,
rippling their muscle in the sunlight,
absorbing the bluster of a storm.
‘Chang Cheng’, they called it,
the long wall,
or ‘The Long Graveyard’,
for the millions who perished.

Later,
when I have rested my legs,
my tongue breezes a poem,
built from stone
and the bones hidden within.

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from One Minute Poems, released October 6, 2022
Long listed in the Trim Poetry Competition 2021.
Published in the Galaxy Atunis Anthology 2022.

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