A Chinese and western poem (plus contrast)

Father's wallet

It was August, a long time ago.

The end of the dying summer.

We bid farewell to the platform shaded by maple trees.

His ashes were put in a poplar box,

Back home, began to choose:

Take this away,

Leave this.

There are three black wallets in the drawer.

Lying flat under a white shirt,

Leather is almost old.

Kraft paper is very thin,

The edges are ground into lace.

The first one I opened released a bunch of wires,

It spirals down.

Like a delicate wing

Left over from previous lives.

Nothing else was left.

Except for a bunch of vague names

And faces, we are ticket stubs.

How many times, the scorching sun

From the west of the city to the windows,

Traffic jam, pain is hard to move

In that old Volkswagen, this lump in my pocket

Does this bother him? all

Will eventually break up, this endless income

Friction with expenditure, day after day.

Run out of life.

Sometimes the last thing you carry with you.

The hardest thing to give up, that moment

In front of the open drawer

Holding an empty wallet,

You suddenly remembered the past,

Only lighter, it floats like a wish,

In the promise that the world finally fulfilled,

The promise of hunger.

wren

To the ballet dancer l.n.

On one occasion, a wren

Trapped in the garage

Knock one glass window into another.

Finally, he squatted on the windowsill exhausted.

My slow words comforted me. Heaven/God knows

What did the sweet singer hear?

Its black eyes

Glare, despair,

I was allowed.

Holding it trembling,

This huge and tiny heart

This immeasurable vulnerability.

Hit my finger hard.

Come out, I let go,

Determination comes from

All prisoners

* * * desire to enjoy:

The sky is enough

People or birds,

The tiny spine of the soul

Dance and open their respective latches.

aim at

Of course, you have to load the bullet.

The direction of your eyes.

But the heart is a noisy organ:

Just as your eyes move to

Bull's-eye, slightly beating.

You were caught off guard.

You learn to hold your breath.

Pull the trigger.

So you won't hurt yourself.

I mean, so slow, so gentle.

Your pulse is getting a hint.

Shut up. Trust me,

When the end of the bucket

Black scene

Start repairing,

It is not enough to stop thinking.

Your blood needs

Very quiet.

You must die.

sunrise

I must have been in my early twenties then.

Despair due to ignorance.

I was driving all night.

If you smoke, alone or in combination

They never fit.

It's so cold at night

In April, the roof under my window

Twilight

Is turning pale.

I walked out of the windowsill and waited.

The gradual outline of everything

Separate, completely independent

Then the light.

Soft gold touches the branches,

Cheeks and fingers, and the roof

One side of every pebble.

The gift of light, without language,

Every moment of this world

Has stood up to meet it.

signal

You said those moths tonight

It's the semaphore of leaning against the window,

Nothing passed. They saw it.

Balance your silver shoulder angle.

The real moon, but the actual route.

Just wandering.

Sometimes we enjoy the sunshine.

It seems so far away that we put ourselves.

Twist each other's eyes tighter.

Until our faces are covered with shadows

Shuttle in front of the lamp, the lamp

Is the only thing that can make me see you clearly.

So one of us triggered the switch.

Turn off the lights.

At this time, the wings spread out.

Peeling silently from the window.

Like thoughts, or the last feather,

A white lie shaken off the pillow.

calligraphy

endless night

These oak trees split.

As if there was only light.

They jumped down along the axe.

Shiny as paper.

The direction of wood grain is like a river.

Through hard land,

Or the smoke depends on the frozen sky

Mysterious curl.

I can almost imagine.

At dawn.

In a wooden house on the rocky shore.

Interpret a story.

A woman woke up and lit the embers.

Then stand by and open the window.

Comb your hair.

She cocked her head like a child.

Think hard about a problem.

As the night grew dark, one of her hands

Raise the waves of sleepiness,

The other combed their flames.

Six yellows of wheat

"No yellow, no blue"

-Van Gogh, Letter to Emile Bernard,1June 888.

A method for buttering wind with sunlight,

One rusts like a scattered bone,

There is also a kind of green that suggests honey again.

I remember. Trekking

The richness of the load is still there.

Practice bending, their voices are very thin.

Do it like cooing.

A few clouds quietly.

Wipe a corner of the field,

Overturned soil

Reflect a deep violet.

Some beards have faded from the rain.

Learn with seeds

Flashing linen, dull

Jump bronze, these stalks

Interlaced lines

Swaying in my heart

Then you will see everything.

Just a wish as simple as the blue sky.

pay expenses

The shadows of six crows in disguise passed by.

Then the sickle swept a path.

The sunlight cut the straw into pieces.

Black-eyed Woods, golden stubble,

The sky is here.

Left its blue knee.

replica

I once rode a donkey at sunset.

Farewell to the cooing hut

A pigeon of the Republic of China came from there.

Spinning and rising, like Zhang Mingliang's wings,

Along the gravel-strewn road,

Last year's stubble was stuck in both hands,

Come to the hill above the valley

Wait until evening

Has embarked on the footsteps of thieves.

Come out of Yang Shulin by the stream.

The donkey shook his rough ears twice.

Suddenly look serene, when the head.

The disappearing jet solidified the street.

Between things

Draw a new matrix,

The sound of their engines

A huge iron ball.

Roll into the distant corridor.

Behind the highway.

1000 maple seeds

Erect in the gravel

Burning orange light.

Like a raised hand.

map

Father is not a draftsman,

But I learned it at the age of ten

How to use crayons and soft cloth

Draw a piece of onion skin paper as

A continent, or a blue ocean.

Extending to the coast where green is faintly visible.

translucent paper

He took my hand,

Soon, I stopped copying,

Let the pen write freely

All rivers and borders

Darkness is insurmountable,

The fictional coastline trembled and the heat rose.

He always said that scale is the key.

I stripped the dry ink off my fingers.

I don't understand what he means.

The map I'm looking at now

It's all small local checks.

Mark the house

This road turns south here.

Red dotted line

Reveal real estate

Boundary.

Visible water area

Still blue,

This measure is taken from life:

Ten thousand steps is an inch.

cumulus

For Thomas? 6? 1 hall

Through the bathroom window

In summer, the temperature keeps rising and the sun sets.

Half a mile west

The roof of the sanatorium of the Institute of Health Science and Technology was punctured,

Ten antennas were nailed in the sky there,

The 25th floor leads directly to heaven.

These days, I often get up at night and have an echo.

My body caught a glimpse of the opposite glass window.

Narrow ribbon, black.

Except for one, the third row on the lower right.

A white hyphen is still burning.

The one next to it.

Sometimes a flash of light flashes.

It seems that the flashlight swept the whole room.

Search for a face, a name,

Or a wrist sticking out from under the sheets.

I felt my breath at that moment.

Wet chest, stormy cells.

Drifting eastward, their tops

Climbing mysteriously at night,

Then rain, one drop, another drop.

Lost in the pouring,

Falling towards the city lights,

Shine, countless, shine.

Savings day

I'm shuttling between rooms again.

Pick up this clock and that,

Twist their delicate wheels,

Half thinking about daylight.

Save at one end,

Lost at the other end.

I can continue the conversation easily.

Probation and injustice,

Acquired and abandoned,

But where will this take us?

I'd rather consider my mother's family.

Wall clock, the year it hangs,

It's old in the lobby of her parents' Ridge Bay.

Its wooden clockwork ticks.

There is a faint smell of coats and cigars.

Last night, alone in front of the bed,

She put the black pointer

Dial 12,

Hearing ratchet's brisk conversation,

When the confiscation time rings in the local area.

First appeared on its face.

See the numbers, see Rome

A powerful blow. After a long time

I imagine the Roman legion

Forcibly crossing an arid province,

Dazzling sunshine,

Dust from all over the world falls on their sandals.

In the attic

It's very hot in summer, and our white single-storey building

Standing on fresh land, there are no trees,

In those stormy days, I often walk along the stairs.

Heat climbed into the attic, liquid on the rafters.

Baked into xiang zhu.

Packed in two drum cardboard barrels.

Father's wartime khaki uniform,

Flat lamb hair flying boots,

Our wool hats and scarves, lost in

It was a snowy afternoon.

I would like to use their steel roof as a gong to ring the bell.

My five-tone elegy, towards the sacred nonsense,

Then I went downstairs obsessively dizzy and sweated.

Walking into the suddenly miraculously cool room,

The high temperature we experience every day.

Just breathing air.

No matter under the burning roof

I sang,

False carols or blind prayers,

The dark moths of those nights

Humming the song that opened under my window.

Flowers in August

And the moon that tore open the screen window