壯志 / High Ambition

Archeological finds from Chinese railroad worker camp near Terrace, Utah

rice bowl shards of four

season pattern      bamboo

green glaze stamped with British

crown     Prosser

buttons metal

suspender clasps       dozens of flat

cut rectangles of unknown

function         small

vials of liniment     work boots bitters   

carved bone dice      

oil-lamp stands and dishes

for pine nuts      rock-

ringed canister with stripe

of excrement        bones

of jackrabbit   porcupine     duck

dish with half

a double happiness on it

lion’s cracked face on the bottom

yawning