Chapter 9 Selected Poems of Ai Qing-Trolley

In the area where the Yellow River flows at the bottom of countless dry rivers trolley with only wheels With a shriek that convulses the dark sky Through the cold and silence from the foot of this mountain to the foot of that mountain resounding the sorrow of the people of the north on a snowy day Between poor villages and villages trolley with separate wheels Deep ruts carved on the gray-yellow soil layer Through the vastness and desert from this road to that road intertwined the sorrow of the people of the north Early 1938 (Excerpted from "North", the first edition of Cultural Life Publishing House in January 1942)