Poem in Meanjin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of Andrew’s poems, “Reading at Lunchtime”, is represented in current issue of Meanjin (Volume 72, Number 3, 2013). Details about this issue of Meanjin can be found here: http://meanjin.com.au/editions.

Andrew’s Meanjin poem is reproduced below:

Reading at Lunchtime

 

A drop I squeezed

from a lemon slice

 

missed the plate

of battered fish

 

and hit the book

of Chinese poems—

 

fell, to my distress,

on a stanza by

 

an unknown poet

Confucius included

 

in The Book of Songs

he compiled

 

500 years before

the first coming of

 

the Man of Sorrows.

Such a bitter drop—

 

on the clean paper

it left a stain like a tear.

 

          © Andrew Lansdown