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17-1 Blood Ties 5/17/05 1:46 PM Page 54 YAN LI part i My nearsightedness must wear tears to see life clearly My blood cries to your blood Let’s not circulate in a battlefield I don’t want to ride a sickbed into the twenty-first century But the twenty-first century rides into my body on a sickbed of its own To live like a stone, many conditions must be met Besides texture, color, temperature, and shape You have to know more of the earth’s historical secrets Than mankind does, yet not speak of them No matter how young you are Within your mind, you have to take care of the senior citizen named Thought A wristwatch is the cruelest device for torturing time “Who winds the earth’s mainspring?” I wonder each day As I turn the doorknob 54 17-1 Blood Ties 5/17/05 1:46 PM Page 55 After plunging into themselves Many people find they cannot swim In places where my countrymen have wept for a long time They begin to make salt I like freedom But I feel that a cage is too bulky to wear Humanity is the aftermath of humanity A head-on wind is combing my hair For beauty’s
Manoa – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jul 7, 2005
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