Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:00:29 +0000 Dreams just made behind closed eyes were suddenly shattered by a glass breaking It would be better if it had been a glass but I was worried that it might be the goldfish from the fish tank that were thrashing on the floor I stopped my ears for a long time against the abusive man and the weeping woman whose voice was so small that it sounded as if it came from another distant world I wasn’t concerned at all that they might break their own home for houses now are built far sturdier than the goldfish tank No. How many homes there must be in today’s cities that look sturdy on the outside but are broken within Chen Dachao (born 1958) is a Chinese poet and short story writer based in Hubei, China, whose work has won prizes in China, Taiwan and Australia. Translated by Ouyang Yu. ]]> wp:comment_status>closed closed draft 0 0 post Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:05:29 +0000 Translated by Ouyang Yu in 1967 my dad went to an alien place to begin his middle school career every weekend my dad managed to get home and bring from home things to eat salted vegetables and dry carrots or pickled cucumbers to prevent his roommates from stealing them my dad had a sound strategy every time he opened his food he’d first spit into it a few mouthfuls of saliva Shen Haobo is a Chinese poet based in Beijing who is often described as the leader of the Post-1970s Poets (poets born in the 1970s) and now edits the Chinese webzine xia ban shen (Lower Parts of the Body). ]]> closed closedpam-brown-patti-smith-was-right draft 0 0 post