Almond Petals
Gillian Bickley - UK
Driving down the road
away from you . . .
Almond petals weep.
But the white plum trees still
raise slight arms to the sky,
never doubting their late flowers
will bear fruit.
Saturday, 29 March
2003
From Gillian Bickley, Moving House and other Poems From Hong Kong, Proverse Hong
Kong, 2005, distributed in Hong Kong and worldwide by: The Chinese University
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