Song Zhuangzhuang
CHANCE ENCOUNTER
In the sun
holding an ice cream
a small child with a mask walks ahead
He stares at his ice cream
but doesn’t take off his mask
I wonder when he will take his first bite
He still doesn’t take off his mask
He walks on
and he’s out of my sight
5/5/20
Translated by MW, July 2020
标签: child, disease, food, ice-cream, mask, measure, NPC, pandemic, people, poetry, Song Zhuangzhuang, summer, virus, 宋壮壮, 新世纪詩典
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