Monday, October 5, 2009

Apple and Stubborn Rock


APPLE AND STUBBORN ROCK

The sea’s prayer ritual
one bad weather bending down

in vain stubborn rock guards May
resisting the green contagion

the four seasons take turns axing the tree
many stars are identifying the road

with his balancing skills the drunkard
breaks the inner siege of time

a bullet pierces an apple
life has been put on loan


Bei Dao

Posted over on Poems & Poetics

Translation from Chinese by Clayton Eshleman & Lucas Klein

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