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.
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3月 25, 2016
Shen Haobo
CHESSBOARD OF SNOW
beijing
returned to frost once again
from the plane
I see a thin cover of snow
like a white
chessboard
who wants to play with me?
nobody
I and the sun
a blood-red sinking sun
stare at each other
across the board
11/26/15
Tr. MW, January 2016
Shen Haobo
SCHACHBRETT AUS SCHNEE
peking
kehrt wieder zurück in den frost
aus dem flugzeug seh ich
eine dünne weiße schicht
ein weißes
schachbrett
wer will mit mir spielen?
niemand
ich und die
blutrot sinkende sonne
über dem brett
starren einander an
11. November 2015
Übersetzt von MW
标签：absence, airplane, beijing, blood, chess, frost, game, people, poetry, presence, red, Shen Haobo, snow, sun, 新世纪诗典, 沈浩波
发表在 January 2016, November 2015, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
中国大好き 