Aaron Lembo has an MA Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and has taught English in China, Vietnam and Spain. He was the winning librettist at the 2017 Rosmaond Prize. His librettos have also been performed at the Leeds Lieder Festival and the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His poems have appeared online and in print. Currently Aaron lives in Kent. 

Written on February 1st 2020 at the time when he was living in Ho Chi Minh City.

View From A Hospital Bed, Zhangjiagang   

A bulbous sleek crow

weighs heavy on the thin bough

and observes the snow.

My heartbeat is slow;

My lungs are sick. Rose petals

stain the cracked window. 

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