Responding to the poetry of Xin Qiji

Christopher Kelen
ISSUE 2007-1
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next » Responding to the poetry of Xin Qiji Partridge sky Translation by Christopher Kelen and Agnes Vong when I was young I waved a flag to lead a thousand soldiers horse too how my men fashioned arrows of silver at night they brought down the moon now the enemy owns it I come back I'm nobody now thinking of the past how one sighs to be neglected Spring won't bring back the black to my beard you can't imagine the tracts I wrote on tactics for this country in return I'm given this poor field bent mattock and some weather-worn tome titled 'how to grow tree'