from Spring Songs (2)

Each time I clear the fence of another day
I am trespassing onto the future’s yard

Like the deer behind the house
alarmed to find open space by the trees leaping

fence after fence and just as quickly gone

[4.14.15]

10 thoughts on “from Spring Songs (2)”

Mary Tang April 15, 2015 at 4:24 am

每逢我步出
又一天的範圍
我便覺侵入了
未來的境界
像屋後那頭
受驚的野鹿
一一跳過
道道圍牆
一剎那
隱沒了

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Jeff Schwaner Post authorApril 15, 2015 at 7:20 am

Thanks again, Mary! Pretty cool.

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Mary Tang May 15, 2015 at 5:20 pm

Cantonese reading now posted on reblog.

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5h2o April 15, 2015 at 1:28 pm

And when you trespass, are you alarmed, too? Pretty sure I am each day.

Nice poem.

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Jeff Schwaner Post authorApril 15, 2015 at 2:29 pm

Thrilled and alarmed.

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1. 5h2o April 15, 2015 at 2:58 pm
  
  Oh. I have work to do to catch up, then!

Mary Tang April 15, 2015 at 11:44 pm

Reblogged this on Life is But This and commented:
My take of the poem in Chinese is attached as a comment. 🙂

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Mary Tang April 17, 2015 at 9:40 pm

I have sent you by email an updated version of my translation and an audio file of my reading in Chinese:

每逢我跨過
又一天的範圍
我便覺侵入了
未來的境界
像屋後那頭
受驚的野鹿
一一跳過
道道圍牆
一剎那
隱沒了

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jessamayann May 18, 2017 at 5:01 pm

I LOVE THIS ONE

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