Zhang Zhizhen
LUNAR NEW YEAR, VIRUS IS HERE
Standing at the intersection,
all four roads empty without any person.
Bus 846 comes along,
but there is only
the driver and one single passenger.
Wah, that one has booked the whole bus.
Now there comes another one,
it’s a #3.
It has only the driver.
Ai-uh, this time there is no-one at all
who could do the booking.
1/25/20
Translated by MW on June 1st, 2020
标签：booking, bus, disease, driver, empty, intersection, lunar calendar, new year, NPC, pandemic, passengers, people, traffic, virus, Zhang Zhizhen, 张致臻, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2020, 20th century, 21st century, April 2020, December 2019, February 2020, January 2020, June 2020, March 2020, May 2020, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
Jun Er
ACCIDENT
I hear
one year
one month
one day
one
mo-
ment
when
a small bird in flight
and a HARMONY bullet train
hit each other
glass “blossomed in shards” at the front of the train
they did an emergency stop for 20 minutes
the bird’s blood, according to passengers
splattered all over the shattered glass
in a beautiful pattern
Tr. MW, January 2016
标签：accidents, animals, birds, blood, blossom, bullet, emergency, flower, high-speed, hit, Jun Er, passengers, pattern, shards, stop, train, 君儿, 新世纪诗典
发表在 January 2016, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
中国大好き