Contents
- The Shadow | 影子
- Believe Me | 相信我
- A Word Told Me He is Ready | 这个词说他已经想好了
- By the Lake | 湖边
- Geography | 地理位置
- Year of the Snake | 生肖蛇
- Home of an Old Comrade | 知青旧居
- Predictions of Snow Are Rarely Accurate | 雪的预告总是不准的
- Love You a Pound | 爱你正好有一斤
- A New Life | 蕴育
- Black Paper | 黑纸
- Today | 今天
- Fish on Blue and White Vase | 鱼纹青花
- The Fire | 火
- End of Spring | 最后的春天
- Rock Skipping | 打水漂
- At the Bus Depot | 3月16日在湖州客运中心
- Because You Got Married | 因为你们结婚了
- I Spent a Year | 我用一年的时间
- We Will All Turn into Weeds | 人都会变成草的
- The Last Lilies | 残荷
- I am Afraid of Darkness | 怕黑
- KUAFU | 夸父
- Chinese-Style Family | 中国式家庭
- I Made Breakfast for My Darling Self | 给心爱的自己做一份早餐
- In the Same Dream with the Plum Flower | 我和梅花的一场梦
- In the Plum Garden | 在梅园
- On the Bus | 在车上
- My Love for You | 爱你
- Just As I Was Thinking | 这样想着
- Late Afternoon in the Village | 傍晚
- Dusk Sky | 傍晚的天空
- Noon | 正午
From Selected Poems of Song Huiyuan
- Predictions of Snow are Rarely Accurate
- My wife said,
- “Predictions of snow are rarely accurate.”
- Just like on the day of my scheduled return,
- my daughters are all waiting.
- It was agreed that it would be yesterday,
- but still no sign of it today.
- Even if it does show up, in just a few days
- all is melted, vanished.
- “May as well be a no show,”
- my wife said.
- “Besides leaving the front door wet,
- besides leaving every home-coming road wet,
- what good is snow?
- What good is snow? And it's so cold!”
- I am not the dark side of you,
- neither your burden,
- more like your twin,
- twin brother or sister.
- The sun raises us
- as his own children, but you take
- grains and crops
- from the cattle and the sheep;
- as for me, I live only on
- the milk of the moon.
- Four tenths cooked rice, three tenths vegetables,
- two tenths beans, one tenth meat
- is my unvarying life.
- Domestic life, fully itemized.
- I love you too, up to a pound.
- One tenth kindness, scorn,
- two tenths getting together, breaking up,
- three tenths not giving up, still leaves four tenths.
- I am writing you a lyric poem.
- Nothing compares to these four tenths,
- I use four tenths to turn a thousand gold.
