中国大好き

Shang Feipeng
VIOLIN VS CELLO

moon festival poetry recital
approaching
liaison tells me:
“when you bring your violin
maybe you could play a more joyful tune?
every time you play for us
you make us so sad.
it’s like you’re pulling those strings on a cello.”
I didn’t reply
I was thinking
my violin is an urn
my cello would be a coffin

(made up on mid-autumn moon festival day 2014 at the Xi’an Chang’an Poetry Festival recital)

Tr. MW, Oct. 2014

标签： grief, instruments, lunar calendar, mood, moon, moon festival, music, poetry, recital, Shang Feipeng, tradition, violin, yi sha, 尚飞鹏, 新世纪诗典

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