It's fat and stupid. Smell it carefully
You can still smell the dirt.
It should come from the countryside.
Old people like grandpa planted it themselves.
Water and fertilize.
When I am lonely, I will talk to it.
It is more familiar with the habits of this land than children.
Which means it knows better.
How to learn to mature after frostbite
Soon after, it left the land.
Lying in the big truck, on the counter of the supermarket.
And the table in our kitchen
Cut the potato by hand and listen to its body unfold crisply.
At this moment, all the stories about the old man and the land.
The sun comes one after another in this season.
Then, like shredded potatoes, it was crunchy.
potato
Author: Kang Chengjia
It's fat and stupid. Its smell,
You can still smell the dirt.
It must have come from the countryside,
It was planted by an old man similar to my grandfather.
He watered it, fertilized it,
Even talk to it when you are lonely.
Potatoes know this land better than children,
There is a self-evident ability.
Mature after frost;
Shortly after the frost, it left the land
Lying on a big truck, and then on the shelf of the supermarket,
Then on our kitchen table.
When I cut the potato and heard it spread crisply,
About the elderly, about the land,
Everything about the change of seasons comes to my mind,
But it was soon replaced by the crispness of chopped potatoes.
Kang Chengjia, a 90-year-old girl from Chongqing Mountain City, graduated from Wuhan University. He has won the grand prize of the 36th National University Student Cherry Blossom Poetry Invitational Competition, the Best Youth Poetry Award in Youth Literature, and the poet of the year in the 20 19 Global University Student Short Poetry Competition. He participated in the 11th China Summer Camp of College Students' Poetry Star, and his works were published occasionally, scattered in Poetry magazine, Yangtze River, Caotang and Star.
Translated by the lyricist of Duck Farm.
Duck farm lyricists are a group of people who love poetry: Wang Meifu and Michael Thorpe. Guy Hibbert.
This poem was written by PATHSHARERS BOOKS (American Peer Publishing House).
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