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8月 1, 2025
THIS MONTH
This month I didn’t write much,
Hardly wrote anything.
I wrote about last year last month,
The demolitions last year in June.
Small local chief
Destroys international art.
Also this year.
For me, the main difference
Is I am not there.
I didn’t go,
Stayed with wife and child.
And so I didn’t
Write very much.
MW 2025/8/1
这个月｜维马丁
这个月没有写多少
基本上什么都没有写
上个月写去年的事
去年就是六月拆房
小当地秘书
拆国际艺术
今年也拆
主要的差别
对我来说
我不在那边
今年没去
今年跟着妻子儿子
这样就没有
写了很多
2025.7
Ma Jinshan
LIVELIHOOD
In front of
The mayor,
My boss
Acts like me
In front of
His face.
Like a dog.
Translated by MW in July 2025
生计｜马金山
在市长
的面前
我老板
如我在
他面前
像条狗
Ma Jinshan
ON THE GRASSLANDS
A flock of sheep
With lowered heads,
Grazing their own
Shadow.
7/28/25
Translated by MW in July 2025
大草原上
马金山
一群羊
在低头
啃吃草地上
自己的
影子
2025.7.28
Ma Jinshan
2025
The flood carries the fish away.
The flood carries hogs away.
The flood carries trees.
The flood carries cars.
The flood carries houses away.
The flood carries people away.
7/28/25
Translated by MW in July 2025
2025
马金山
洪水把鱼冲走了
洪水把猪冲走了
洪水把树冲走了
洪水把车冲走了
洪水把房冲走了
洪水把人冲走了
2025.7.28
标签：animals, art, authority, cars, 维马丁, demolition, destruction, disaster, 马金山, fish, flood, houses, life, Ma Jinshan, Martin Winter, people, trees, water, writing
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7月 19, 2025
Duan Weiguo
BERGE
Menschen wie Wasser, Berge wie Rauch.
Nichts bleibt nach dem Wind.
Etwas kommt aus dem Nichts,
wird zunichte gemacht.
Stolz und selbstbewusst
werden Leichen verbrannt.
Mit gestreckter Brust
wird die Asche verstreut.
Lastwagen poltern mit Erde und Lehm.
Ziegel in Trümmern, kaum mehr zu sehen.
Als wär nichts geschehen,
als wär alles passiert.
Die Berge stehen
und faszinieren.
Übersetzt von MW im Juli 2025
picture by 琼芯
山
段维国
山若青烟人若水
风过之后了无痕
以前无中生有
近来去有为无
理直气壮
焚尸灭迹
抬头挺胸
挫骨扬灰
几车黄土呼啦啦
残砖碎瓦皆不见
好像什么都没发生
又好像什么都发生了
…………
山川依旧
魅力人间
2025
标签：art, ashes, beauty, bones, country, countryside, demolishing, demolition, dictators, Duan Weiguo, earth, force, happening, history, house, housing, language, memory, mountains, museum, museums, people, power, record, records, rocks, ruins, sculpture, Shangyuan Art Museum, speech, Stones, studio, time, trace, traces, villages, violence, water, 段维国
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6月 30, 2025
picture by Meng Zhi
不在
（给上苑艺术馆2025年艺术家）
维马丁
不在中文环境
很难写中文
尤其是老外
看到朋友照片
和视频
就更知道
朋友拍的
都是想记得
记得美
记得在一块
也记得
荒谬霸气
坠毁空虚
2025.6.28
Picture by Qizi
5×6
暴雨到阳台
蝴蝶来避难
还有大黄蜂
以为它死了
第二天起飞
是同一只吗
2025.6
月
不知她说啥
只知我所知
她是非常棒
以后再不是
我们都一样
月亮是很大
2025.6
Picture by Duan Weiguo
一天
两支手指摸你脖子
你的手盖住我一眼
这样躺着几分钟
就是一天
2025.6
端午
今年端午
阳历有点早
五月三十一
第二天六一
第三天我生日
第四天周二
第五天不说
2025.6
标签：art, body, Dragon Boat festival, feeling, feelings, history, June, life, love, memory, people, poetry, rain, reading, weather, writing
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6月 30, 2025
picture by Meng Zhi
AWAY
Away from the environment,
how do I write in Chinese?
Especially a foreigner!
Looking at photos
and videos,
I realize again
when friends take a picture
they want to remember,
remember beauty,
being together,
and also
the vapid aggression,
destruction and ruin.
MW June 28th, 2025
picture by Meng Zhi
不在
（给上苑艺术馆2025年艺术家）
维马丁
不在中文环境
很难写中文
尤其是老外
看到朋友照片
和视频
就更知道
朋友拍的
都是想记得
记得美
记得在一块
也记得
荒谬霸气
坠毁空虚
2025.6.28
picture by Meng Zhi
AWAY
Away from the environment,
how do I write in the language?
Especially a foreigner!
Looking at photos
and videos,
I realize again
when friends take a picture
they want to remember,
remember beauty,
being together,
and also
the vapid aggression,
destruction and ruin.
MW June 28th, 2025
英语也可以说任何语言，包括英语，离开了环境很难写出来。而那些荒谬等等，川普美国感觉也是。
In English I can talk about writing in any language, also English, while being away from the environment. I wrote this poem in Chinese in response to what happened last year and this year at a certain place in China. But the absurd aggression, the senseless destruction and ruin could also be Trump and Musk’s ‘work’, right? Or Putin and so on.
标签：absence, aggression, art, artists, beauty, communication, corruption, decision, demolition, destruction, distance, empty, environment, expression, feeling, fluency, foreign, foreigners, friends, friendship, greed, history, hurt, idiots, landlord, language, memory, people, pictures, politics, power, representation, ruins, Shangyuan Art Museum, society, speaking, speech, time, times, ugliness, ugly, village, water, work, writing
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6月 19, 2025
Zhou Fangru
DAMALS HAB ICH AM ABEND NICHTS ESSEN KÖNNEN
Eine kaum mit mir verwandte Verwandte
hat mir immer selbstgepflanztes Gemüse
und selbstgemachte Kuchen gebracht.
Jedesmal, wenn ich abgelehnt hab,
hat sie gesagt, ich sei zu mager.
Eines Tags hat mich ein Schuldner verfolgt und beschimpft,
ich war sehr niedergeschlagen.
Sie bringt mir einen Sack Mais und Salat.
Ich hab mir gedacht, bring mir einen Sack Geld!
Wegen dieser Idee
hab ich mich den ganzen Tag geschämt.
Übersetzt von MW im Juni 2025
标签：borrow, food, life, memory, money, NPC, poetry, relations, relationships, shame, Zhou Fangru, 周芳如, 新世纪詩典
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6月 14, 2025
Xing Hao
PAKT
Die funkelnde Sichel,
die Felder der Hirse,
das Blut meines Vaters
auf getrockneter Klinge.
Es war sein Herbst,
auf dem großen Pakt
war sein roter Daumen.
Übersetzt von MW im Juni 2025
标签：art, autumn, blood, color, death, 邢昊, fall, family, father, grain, harvest, history, ideology, impact, knife, life, memorial, memory, sickle, treatment, Xing Hao, 新世纪詩典
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6月 12, 2025
Moon River – Zhou Mengdie
Walking along the quiet Ganges,
the moon in the Ganges walking with me –
I am a shadow of the Ganges,
the moon in the Ganges is my shadow.
Swallowed, released in the sound of the river,
blinking and gone in the moon’s dancing shade.
No beginning, never ending,
in a swirling, swirling void.
The moon in the sky or the moon in the water?
The moon in the river, the moon in a dream?
Moon has entered endless waters, water keeps a thousand moons.
Which is you? Which one is me?
They say water, moon and I
come from a barren, distant nowhere.
That origin: Origin of no origins,
coming from where?
The moon’s light, the water’s flow, my walking
they all don’t come from themselves.
With eyes for sails and feet for oars, against the current, my back to the moon,
let me enter time before the Ganges’ first grain of sand.
Translation: Martin Winter, 2012-2025
月河 – 周夢蝶
傍著靜靜的恆河走
靜靜的恆河之月傍著我走──
我是恆河的影子
靜靜的恆河之月是我的影子。
曾與河聲吞吐而上下
亦偕月影婆娑而明滅；
在無終亦無始的長流上
在旋轉復旋轉的虛空中。
天上的月何如水中的月？
水中的月何如夢中的月？
月入千水 水含千月
哪一月是你？
哪一月是我？
說水與月與我是從
荒遠的，沒有來處的來處來的
那來處：沒有來處的來處的來處
又從哪裡來的？
想著月的照，水的流，我的走
總由他而非由自──
已眼為帆足為槳，我欲背著月逆水而上
直入恆河第一沙未生時。
标签：india, literature, longing, moon, poetry, river, shade, shadow, shadows, taiwan, thoughts, walking, water, writing, 台湾, 周夢蝶, 周梦蝶
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6月 11, 2025
Duan Muxi
LEBEN
Mein Leben ist ein Film.
Am Anfang sitz ich auf Opas Schoß
und sag,
wenn ich groß bin, werd ich für Opa
ganz viel Geld verdienen.
Am Ende hock ich
an Opas Grab,
verbrenne für Opa
ganz viel Totengeld.
Übersetzt von MW im Juni 2025
标签：burn, child, death, family, film, grandfather, grave, life, money, movie, NPC, paper, people, poetry, story, work, 新世纪詩典, 段沐熙
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6月 5, 2025
I ACHES
I aches I impossible I never where I couldn’t fine gold believe all might impossible stream would our turn would we believe it might hold but never where impossible ever scatters wakes devotion candle for it for we couldn’t fine gold ever where would we reach where ever gold fine couldn’t we for it for candle devotion wakes ever impossible where never but hold might it believe we would turn our would stream impossible might all believe gold fine couldn’t I where never I impossible I aches I
MW June 2025
标签：aches, counting, eye, eyes, games, hurt, interactive, playing, poetry, restrict, restricted, sick, words
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6月 5, 2025
DRAGONBOAT
Dragonboat day
was early this year,
May 31st.
Followed by Children’s Day.
Then by my birthday.
Then it was Tuesday.
Wednesday’s date
cannot be remembered.
MW June 2025
DRACHENBOOT
Drachenbootfest
war heuer früh,
31. Mai.
Nächster Tag Kindertag.
Dann mein Geburtstag.
Dann Dienstag.
Mittwoch ist der fünfte Tag,
das Datum wird nicht erwähnt.
MW 4. Juni 2025
端午
今年端午
阳历有点早
五月三十一
第二天六一
第三天我生日
第四天周二
第五天不说
2025.6
标签：birth, birthday, child, childbirth, childhood, children, Children's Day, 端午, dates, day, dragon, Dragon Boat festival, forbidden, forbidden topics, history, massacre, memory, poetry, weekend
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6月 2, 2025
PEOPLE
people are nightmares
people are sleep
people are untold
fathoms deep
people are small
people call
people wail
people are nails
pails in the rain
people rail
people betray
again and again
people are birds
birds on the fields
fish in the rivers
fish in the sea
people yield
people thirst
people hunger
people are fear
people are wonders
people are words
people burst
people fly
people fall
people swing
people stink
people work
people are anything
anytime
under the sun
over the moon
among the stars
people aren’t on mars
people are cars
playing cards
people are farts
people are ants
people poison
and pant
people write
and extradite
people are kites
people are bards
MW Midnight, May 30, 2025
in Györ, Hungary
Picture by Duan Weiguo
人
人是噩梦
人睡人
人说人人
都很深
人都很小
人们叫
人们哭
人是钉子
雨水筒
人是恨
人卖人
人是鸟
人是野兽
河里的鱼
海里也是
人让人
有人非常渴
有人非常饿
人都是奇迹
人是个词
人能爆炸
人能飞
人能跌倒
人摇晃
人是工作
人都很臭
人是一切到处都有
在星星中
在星球上
火星人有吗
人人都有车
能打牌的车
人都放屁
人也是蚂蚁
人也下毒
人喘息
人写信
也令出境
人是风筝
偶尔写诗
2025.6.1
标签：betrayal, bicycle, border, borders, car, death, deaths, economy, fall, fart, fish, food, life, Mars, memory, music, people, poetry, poison, selling, society, stars, stink, water, wonder, work, world
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