Yan Jun
Two Poems from 2007
Febr. 13 (For those who have never seen rain)
time difference carrying luggage going into the rainbow
the travellers the sleepy-heads
the cats in thailand fishing folk in shanxi
corpses in books female warriors coming up
seven o’clock in the morning darkness leaving these faces
they all have their names
in their passports in the papers
new babies awaken accordeons destroying a jail
taipei raindrops dancing calling me back
Febr. 13th, 2007
Tr. MW, March 2012
June 28
they all flew away from the moma development
over xidan over tanggu over berlin and cologne
it rained on the way bird flu broke out peach blossoms fell
stock market softly extinguished babies were born
central station capetown tea hawkers taking the lift
dusk finally changing into the night
they closed down lufthansa center the workers’ stadium
bombed olympic park they did it for love
but for the sleepless heart but jardin du luxembourg
but butterflies flying on lantau over the temple of heaven
but hashish bees helicopters took them away
all of urumqi changed into a park
finally changing into the night and they sighed
they changed into her they love her they flew
into another dream
June 28, 2007
Tr. MW, March 2012
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