Unnamed Town - Chen Dong Dong / 陈东东
The bend here in the river / has made it what it is / and even more so / the crudeness of the cement railings on both banks /
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Returning Home - Miao Kegou / 缪克构
Lightning flashes，illuminating the path. / Thunder rumbles, traveling inland from the distant sea. / A night of heavy rain washes over a village steeped in salt. /
Nobody Told Me - Jidi Majia / 吉狄马加
Like mine, but he had only a long spoon with him. / Biashylazzi didn’t tell me / If lavish entertainments also await me / Along the road for sending off souls. /
The Rain Says - Zheng Chou Yu / 郑愁予
(The rain says, April has waited on the earth for a long while......) / The rice paddies and pastures have waited long enough. / So have fish ponds and running brooks. / When the fields are frozen all winter, imprisoning the seeds, / The pastures wither brown, tracks of cows and sheep vanish. /
Stare - Zhang Ye / 张 烨
I go towards you smiling / Happy in your stare / Apprehensive in my happiness / Like a calm sea / Imagining a storm swelling /
Air Force One - Jiang Tao / 姜 涛
The airplane cuts through thick clouds, bringing forth the archipelago’s anxiety / Crawling on the reef, those soldiers / on military maneuvers just learned to say ‘hello’ / Now they have to suddenly stand up / in the Okinawan town hall ablaze with lights /
To the Legendary Lady of Huian - Shu Ting / 舒 婷
A wildfire burns in the distance, / the distance in your amber eyes. // Silver baubles from an ancient tribe / hang from your soft wrist. /