China

Chinese Poems on the Underground – spotted District Line, eastbound 1/2/08

Winter Travels

who’s typing on the void
too many stories
they’re twelve stones
hitting the clockface
twelve swans
flying out of winter

tongues in the night
describe gleams of light
blind bells
cry out for someone absent

entering the room
you see that jester’s
entered winter
leaving behind flame

- Bei Dao (born 1949)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beidao.htm
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