Explore Poems: Living

Naked is a good word
That must not be desecrated.
The heart doesn’t hide dirt,
So it can beat free till…

The euphemism is “infusion” when confusion is what happens, and depends on no time in particular especially…

When you wake from a troubled sleep,
     after you’ve used the bathroom, don’t go back.
Walk down the hall…

The caregiver calls to tell me about mother,
but I know she hasn’t slept. The security videos
of her restless…

smiling at far end of table with friends I don’t know

newly wedded NYC looking down

taking turns holding…

It was July. I must have been sixteen or seventeen,
And proud to be chosen for a grown man’s work,
Hollowing…

is just a garden, really.


A plot of land where you might reach down
to touch the snow

and crystallize.


 …

The cafe buzzes with so many voices it plugs my ears with the artillery of human noise. Man Behind Me…

We would only get so far,
                        given the casualties
buried in each point of view.
            This one, this one, this…

my hands are still my hands
like my grandfather’s hands
are his hands and they
are on the window
attached…

I dreamed you called without reason, picking up where we left the
water months ago. Origins without …

Here before the sun rises, I find it difficult to make the words, to lean
forward three years after your…

Woken again, this time by wings
scraping the air to pitch the warbler’s
heft from its tree. Its perch…

The end, I think, will be a little like looking down as far as I can see to where the wind has kicked…

刚刚离开了繁忙的码头
又来到一个陌生的车站
一生中我们就这样追寻着时间
或许是因为旅途被无数次的重复
其实人类从来就没有一个所谓的终点
可以告诉你，我是一个游牧民族的儿子
我相信爱情和死亡是一种方式
而这一切都只会…

裸露是很美好的词，
不能亵渎。只有心不藏污，
才能至死不渝地坦荡。
我喜欢石头，包括它的裂缝，
那些不流血的伤口。
石头无论在陆地还是海洋，
无论被抬举还是被抛弃，
都在用身体抵抗强加给它的表情，
即使伤痕累累。
我的…

将一盏灯送进

石窟，也别忘了
带一把青稞。

将一棵菩提
栽上壁画，也别忘了
供一碗净水。

将一尊佛像请进
敦煌，一定别忘了
养一对羔羊。

菩萨不会走。
可万一走了，这些
就是我们疼痛的拌料。

After leaving a busy dock
We come to a new railway station
We chase time like this all our lives
The journey…

Please bring a light

Into the grotto cave, please don’t forget
To bring a handful of barley.

Please plant…

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