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, /
Poesía china
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 /
O Tree Planter Be Careful - Yu Jian / 于 坚
look the woodland elaeocarpus at our door has grown into a temple / but unexpectedly years back when the seedling was hauled home just planted / without being expected to serve like those expensive schools / isn’t planting a tree before one’s home something natural /
A Guide to Funeral Arrangements - Yang Xiao Bin / 杨小滨
When I had just died, everyone / blamed me for leaving in a hurry. // It was actually my first time dying – / I forgot my wallet and keys. / “Be back in a minute.” / I closed my mouth behind me, / snuffed the sunlight in my throat. /
Fall, or some kind of journey - Ming Di / 明 迪
Falling to fall is like boarding a pirate ship, / easy to get on but not easy to get off.