Chapter 1 1
In Goya's paintings, they give the artist
Brings nightmares.they fly up and down
Left and right; they whisper
but never wake up the artist
Unspeakable happiness floats in them
on human faces.these birdlike
instead of bird creatures, all black
Combined with darkness, like a seed that never blooms
hopeless spirit
Blind, murderous, guided by will
sometimes hanging upside down on the branches
Like pieces of dead leaves, it is pitiful
And in other stories, they are
shelter in damp caves
When the sun goes down, it's their time to go
Feed, give birth, then disappear
They'll force a sleepwalker into the fold
They'll snatch the torch from his hand and extinguish it
They will also chase away an invading wolf
Let it fall down the valley, there's nothing to say
At night, if a child stays up late
It must be because of a braid
escaped the sore eyes of the night watchman
Come near and tell him fate
One, two, three weaving
No property, no home, how can one give
bring well-being?The waxing and waning of the moon faded their
feathers; they are ugly and nameless
Their hearts of stone never fascinated me
until one summer evening
When I passed by the old residence, I saw a group of children playing
see more bats tumbling over their heads
The sunset casts shadows in the alley
Gilded those bats too
They fly outside the paint-peeling street door
silent about fate
in old things a bat
It is a nostalgia.their leisurely attitude
keep me, keep me long
In that city, in the alley where I grew up
The twelve swans shining on the lake
no shadow
The twelve swans clinging to each other
inaccessible
Twelve swans—twelve instruments—
when they chirp
when they flap their silvery wings
the air wraps their huge bodies
lifting
An age draws aside, with its
ridicule
Think about it, me and twelve swans
Live in the same city!
The twelve swans shining on the lake
heart-pounding
Among the teals they keep
pure animality
water is their fields
foam is their jewel
Once we dreamed of the twelve swans
their haughty necks
bent into the water
What keeps them from sinking?
Is it flippers?
with feathers
They retrieve lost amulets again and again
The lake is vast, the sky is high: poetry
is redundant
I want to see ninety-nine swans
Born in the moonlight!
You must turn into a swan to follow
Behind them—
Navigate by constellation
or from the leaves of lotus and water hyacinth
suck the night
in a vast country
The twilight is also vast
The lights come on one by one
Twilight spreads like autumn
all shut up
O dead, come forth
For the twilight is a dream—
silence gained purity
i remembered some names
every name signifies
an experience like no other
They make heaven and hell
And twilight spreads across the land
I reach out and someone takes it
Whenever twilight falls there are people
knock gently on my door
There's a mystery you can't handle
You can only act as a bystander
Let the mysterious power
signal from afar
Let the light shine through your heart
like tonight, in Hargay
In this desolate place far from the city
place, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Next to a railway station the size of a broad bean
I look up at the stars
This pair of galaxies is silent, the wings of birds are thin
The grass grows wildly to the stars).
The horses forgot to fly
The wind blows the empty night and blows me
The wind blows the future and the past
I become someone, someone
Shabby room with oil lamps
And the cold roof of this hut
Stepped into an altar by the billions of feet of the stars
I'm like a child receiving communion
Bold up, but hold your breath