中国大好き

Neng Shui
OYSTER SHELL WALLS

At the water you live off the water
Ancestors who kept oysters
used oyster shells
to build wondrous walls.

I saw an intro,
you mix in clay, cane sugar, sticky rice and so on
ordinary people
could not afford that.
The walls that still stand now
are ancestral halls of a clan or some official.

Records state,
for one ancestral hall you need ten tons of shells.
Dazed and surprised
I looked to the village across from the halls.
A hundred-year-old white-haired lady
came tottering out,
like an oyster ghost who somehow survived.

Translaed by MW, July 2020

标签： ancestors, 能水, food, history, memory, Neng Shui, NPC, ocean, oysters, people, poetry, sea, shells, walls, water, 新世纪詩典

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