Sam Hamill: Coming to It
A midnight cup of sake,
a strange solitude.
Is this all I’ve become?
Old and alone, bending
over a poem
written in loneliness
by some old Chinese
bag o’ bones
more than a thousand years ago.
Copyright 2018 Sam Hamill
Sam Hamill’s recent books include Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese published by Tiger Bark Press and Habitation: Collected Poems published by Lost Horse Press.
I like to think, in a thousand years, some old guy will be bending over this poem of yours, Sam.
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