Yuanmingyuan
bits and pieces of
a disturbing past
Yuanmingyuan
bits and pieces of
humiliations
Yuanmingyuan
heavy in their flight
the giant magpies
Yuanmingyuan
waiting for butterflies, birds
and the emperor's peonies
Yuanmingyuan
still as fascinating
the giant magpies
Yuanmingyuan
bits and pieces of
colonial shame
Yuanmingyuan
waiting to be mended
sins of the west
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