酷我-北美枫

[anna]

We are a silent set
in the corner,
motionless
in their view.

The light is dim,
the air is cold,
yet we enjoy ourselves
in the moment of peace.

They come to occupy us,
with food and drinks,
puffing on cigarettes
and gulping down beers,
butts sunk in and elbows pressing on us.

They eat, talk and laugh
until their world becomes lofty.
Yet the blood of their hate,
the veins of their anger,
the nerves of their fear,
the cells of their sadness,
all become our sheer torture.
They scream to us, and bang on us.

We are never drunk,
always aware of their emptiness
and us being taken up.

It’s enough,
enough,

we collapse.
_________________
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

We are a silent set
in the corner,
motionless
in their view.

The light is dim,
the air is cold,
yet we enjoy ourselves
in the moment of peace.

They come to occupy us,
with food and drinks,
puffing on cigarettes
and gulping down beers,
butts sunk in and elbows pressing on us.

They eat, talk and laugh
until their world becomes lofty.
Yet the blood of their hate,
the veins of their anger,
the nerves of their fear,
the cells of their sadness,
all become our sheer torture.
They scream to us, and bang on us.

We are never drunk,
always aware of their emptiness
and us being taken up.

It’s enough,
enough,

we collapse.
_________________
---------------------

Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

Late Night

We sit in our bed.
You watch a new movie;
I read a book about

The window drapes are heavy,
no moon can peek through.
Yet I can see moons in my book -
the new moon takes me back to the Stone City;
the full one flows on Yangzi River.

Twenty years, the moon follows me
wherever I go, printing my slim shadow.

Across the Pacific Ocean, I recall
a special one
engraved in my dream
and drown in Nostalgia River.

Listen to the faint echoes,
I hold your hands beneath the blanket.
_________________
---------------------

Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

Late Night

We sit in our bed.
You watch a new movie;
I read a book about

The window drapes are heavy,
no moon can peek through.
Yet I can see moons in my book -
the new moon takes me back to the Stone City;
the full one flows on Yangzi River.

Twenty years, the moon follows me
wherever I go, printing my slim shadow.

Across the Pacific Ocean, I recall
a special one
engraved in my dream
and drown in Nostalgia River.

Listen to the faint echoes,
I hold your hands beneath the blanket.
_________________
---------------------

Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com