Leopard - Gong Xuemin / 龚学敏

Gong Xuemin / 龚学敏




Leopard

-- In the 1970s, on the wall behind our county co-op counter hung a
piece of leopard pelt purchased from a peasant.

Bring it on,
I turn the grapeshot from my previous life to blossoms over my body.

Iron rushes in the wind, and behind me bit by bit the village gets lost;
The breath of the treetops decays on the green hills,
Diffusing at the speed of iron.

Dawn and dusk are seamed together,
Human traces come between and become
The powerless red despair in my legacy.

I plant iron in the earth, and let it sprout and grow,
As the village turns pale in the tree shade, regretful.

The fist of my pelt takes hold of the iron and runs,
The distance I can cover determines the length of the iron.
The faster I run, the slower the iron,
The longer time the village has for itself to decay.

I fish, with the line I draw with the speed of the running iron,
The dining table of the forest is shrouded with the white cloth of the sky,
While hungry birds sing. The gold coins over my body
Are baiting the village into flying.

Bring it on,
I have been glorified by the blossoms of grapeshot
And made into the last flag, a verb
Nailed to the wall.

(Translated by Fan Jinghua)




金钱豹

1970 年代，县供销社收购站墙上一直挂着一张从农民手里收购来的金钱豹皮。
——题记

来吧
前世的霰弹被我开成了满身的花朵。

铁在风中疾行，村庄在我身后一点点地迷路
青冈树冠腐朽的气息
用铁的速度弥漫

黎明与黄昏缝在一起
人迹成为间隙
成为我遗产中无力的红色绝望。

我把铁种在地上，发芽，生长
村庄在树荫中苍白，唯有遗憾

我把铁攥在皮毛的拳中奔跑
奔跑的距离，决定铁的长度
我越快，铁就越慢
村庄留给自己腐朽的时间就越长

我用铁奔跑的速度划出的线，钓鱼
森林的餐桌被天空的白布裹胁
饥饿的鸟鸣。我浑身的钱
成为村庄飞翔的诱饵

来吧
霰弹的花朵，已经把我招摇成
最后一面旗帜，一个被钉在墙壁上的
动词



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Gong Xuemin，was born in Jiuzhaigou，now living in Chengdu. As the president of the poetry journal Xingxing，he has made field trips and wrote long poem Long March along the route of the Central Red Army’s Long March from Ruijin, Jiangxi to Yan’an, Shaanxi in the Spring of 1995.He has published poetry collections Long March, Jiu¬zhai Blue, Forbidden City, Hollyhock on Paper, On the Brink, as well as Li Shangyin’s poetry annotation Writing Poems Like Li Shangyin.


龚学敏，九寨沟人，居成都。1995 年春天，沿中央红军长征路线从江西瑞金到陕西延安进行实地考察并创作长诗《长征》。出版诗集《长征》《九寨蓝》《紫禁城》《纸葵》《濒临》等， 以及李商隐诗歌译注《像李商隐一样写诗》。《星星》诗刊杂志社社长。