Category: Chinese

• “Moon Island” by Yu Yuen Lan

  An island like a moon. An island where only two people live. From a boat far away, it looks like the flattened tracks of a railroad, dark inky green.

  Chinese

  Fion Tse, Yu Yuen Lan

• Seven Poems by Wang Pu

  People sit on a train slowly approaching the station. Their platform was left behind in another province; those who saw them off had the same blazing eyes once, like flaming handkerchiefs.

  Chinese

  Talbot Hook, Wang Pu

• Four Poems by Yuan Yongping

  Today, the black trunk outside my window is scrutinizing me, / my ugliness, inspecting my humanly wicked deeds,

  Chinese

  Xin Xu, Yongping Yuan

• Ye Lijun

  Curtains down. Alone in the empty theater / I wait, behind time / another unknown scene. I believe in my first impression

  Chinese

  Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Ye Lijun