a hundred thousand windows shimmer
these soothsayers
between yesterday and the sea
murmur an errant delight
the bridge becomes reality
stretching over a public ray of light
and touching on yesterday’s rose’s
secret voyage to provide
one sheet of paper one kind of dilemma
mother’s tears my dawn
Bei Dao
co-translated by Lucas Klein and Clayton Eshleman (from ENDURE, Black Widow Press, 2011)
