Stone Cell

A companion volume to Lo Fu’s book-length poem Driftwood (Zephyr Press, 2006), Stone Cell compiles writing from every decade of his celebrated literary career.

“Beyond Logic”

Do you know why rivers cling to their banks?
Because they only have one way of dying
Even with two banks, the ferries have no choice
We’d prefer an incendiary bomb
To smelling the scorched stench of the setting sun

As long as I live I’m destined to swallow those awful sonnets
Turning to the last page—
Still those damned sonnets

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