Posts Tagged ‘small town’

SOUND 声音

6月 18, 2024

SOUND

From the platform
up on the mountain
you can see the ruins
of the art museum,
best bring field glasses.
Sounds of demolition
reverbrate through the valley.
What a big factory!
There is no bigger industry
than demolition
in Shayukou village
in Qiaozi town
in Huairou district,
north of Beijing.

MW June 18, 2024

声音

从山上平台
看艺术馆
用望远镜
能看废墟
强拆声音
远远响应
像大工厂
北京怀柔
桥梓镇
沙峪口村
拆艺术馆
目前没有
更大企业

2024.6.18

 

 

11/9/14 – 李四 Li Si

11月 29, 2014

November9

Li Si
2014-11-09

Yu Cui-fang 于翠芳 has grown old,
can only go to her grave.
Funeral music played on and on,
becoming a shroud,
big enough to wrap up a life.

Yu Cui-fang, I don’t know her at all.
I’m a young Chinese guy in a small town
Yu Cui-fang must be kin to our landlord,
downstairs they set up a funeral tent.
I just went down to empty the garbage,
all I could see were these three characters.

Yu Cui-fang has grown old,
funeral music played on and on.
I must get up early for my driver’s exam.

2014-11-09
Tr. MW, Nov. 2014

Li Si