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Autumn Words

Trns. by John Balcom

The leaves can no longer cling to the withered limbs
Falling in droves they litter the cold lake at dawn
Someone with an umbrella walks the dewy shore
All that is heard in the forest is a pine cone
Leapt from the tree, a startled cry:

Is this how you come? Ripples
And echoes linger over the water
The duckweed suddenly parts
Leaving the mountain's reflection kissing
The blue rain-washed sky, and autumn deepens

From "Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry" ( p.387), New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

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秋辭

葉子攀不住枯黯的枝枒
紛紛奔向清晨微寒的潭心
有人打傘自多露的湖畔走過
只聽見右側林中跳下一顆
松子,驚聲喊道

你就這樣來了嗎?漣漪
和回聲都流連在空盪的水面
一些浮萍忽然站了起來
留下山的倒影明晰地吻著雨後
蔚藍的天空,而秋是深得更深了

 

First published: July 3,1998   Copyright 2009 Xiang Yang. All Rights Reserved