The Second Kiss - Yan Ai Lin / 颜艾琳
Pedestrians have been hidden by night, / I can not take it / One of the corner / Or you. /
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Poets: The Sons of Nature - Wu Si Jing / 吴思敬
Certain natural conditions create certain mindset. “The Book of Rites: On Music,” says, “The heart is touched because of the things surrounding it.” Here “the things”
refer to all things in nature.
A Night in the Purple Tulip Palace (Adagio) - Yang Lian / 杨 炼
In this seraglio night always consists of moonlight, / jade steps and a curtain of pearls / all imaginary a bunch of flowers against blue wallpaper / imagine caving in under the concubine's clothes a mound of snow /
Spring Song - Guan Guan / 管 管
Spinning the whole night, still undone, spinning mist on an apricot tree, / This sister (why, nothing at odds with her) is spinning weeping, /
Homage to Dufu's Cottage - Yang Lian / 杨 炼
Thirty years walked from this side to the other side of summer / thirty years stepping into autumn // A glass of stronger wine / set before me reflects a swallowed smile /
Travels in Xichuan Province - Xi Chuan / 西 川
Everywhere the erhu all about the street oh the whole street singing. / Everywhere the peddlers all about the street the great big sky. / Everywhere the daughters all about the street each one named Jade Orchid. / Everywhere the aunties all about the street all with eager faces. /
A Small Station Where Gods Arrive - Li Shao Jun / 李少君
Several small wooden houses / spatter out few dots of light / I’m as small as an ant / Held up here in the middle of a vast Mongolian prairie / at an unnamed stop / Enduring the frigid loneliness, but also inwardly content /