WeiWei 围围（傅正洪）

• The Zoo (Excerpt)  |  动物园

Li Zhiyong 李志勇

• Taking a Walk  |  散步
• Married Life  |  夫妻生活
• Wintertime  |  冬天
• Gathering Firewood  |  拾柴
• Short Journal Entries  |  薄笔记

Li Longnian 李龙年

• Peaceful Avenue  |  静静的街树
• The Southern Country  |  在南方
• Pigeon Coop at Beidaihe  |  北戴河鸽子窝
• Passion  |  热爱

An Qi 安琪

• Parting Before Daybreak  |  天不亮就分手
• Look Back When You Feel Sad  |  悲伤时请想想过去
• A Vain Search for the Green Buffalo  |  伏牛山寻青牛不遇
• Two Lovers in the Ancient World  |  两个古人在相爱
• The Yong-ho Lamasery  |  雍和宫
• Ferry Ride  |  轮渡

Zhang Fanxiu 张凡修

• I Own Darkness  |  我有黑暗
• No Peace  |  不安
• Autumn Wind is Cooling  |  秋风凉
• The Hallway Wind  |  穿堂风

Luo Ying (Huang Nubo) 骆英 (黄怒波)

• Distance from the World  |  与世界的距离
• Mountain Legend, 1  |  山上的故事, 1
• Mountain Legend, 2  |  山上的故事, 2
• Mountain Legend, 3  |  山上的故事, 3
• Mountain Legend, 4  |  山上的故事, 4
• Mountain Legend, 5  |  山上的故事, 5

From 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No. 11

• Thousands of mountains, not a bird in flight.
• Solitary is the black heron,
• walking from stem to stern, in the river and out, singing:
• .
• My wings are my rain cape,
• my joy is boundless:
• wearing my rain cape rain or shine.
• My wings are my fish trap,
• my joy is endless:
• trapping fish day and night.

— WeiWei, Black Heron (from The Zoo)

• Walking down the chilly street,
• my empty pockets are like two houses,
• you can almost feel the hands' loneliness.
• .
• No vehicles or trains go to destinations
• such as my pockets, therefore these pockets will stay the same
• for quite a long time. The trains go a long distance.

— Li Zhiyong, Wintertime

• I always feel that fish
• probably swim up the avenues, to the trees.
• I catch the exhalations of shellfish
• and the silver streaks of scabbard fish in the air.
• Their palpi touch the leaves
• for them to secrete tiny green bubbles.
• .
• An avenue of graceful trees.
• I guess it has to do with sea fish.
• The trees twist and twirl, like fish.
• In fact, they breathe through the trees’ leafy lungs,

— Li Longnian, Peaceful Avenue

• Didn't mean to revisit the old pigeonhole,
• but in the crowded subway,
• the tired faces reminded you of those cubbyholes
• which you and many others called or still call home----

— An Qi, Look Back When You Feel Sad

• I help to elongate the shadows.
• I do.
• ----“I own Darkness”. That persimmon tree is mine, too.
• Earlier on,
• because of the tall wall on its east side,
• the morning light cannot reach the tree.
• The tree has darkness, too.
• Only in the afternoon, at four o’clock, the tree turns around,
• bathes and combs and changes clothes, and puts on make-up.

— Zhang Fanxiu, I Own Darkness

• By the sea tonight, I ponder my distance from the world.
• To conduct a survey for it, my eyes follow the reflections of the stars
• as they drift further out to the sea,
• but they surprise me by rushing back like a school of fish.
• In fact I would rather they turn into water chrysanthemums.

— Luo Ying, Distance from the World