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第24章 Mirage: Inscription on the Precipice of History

At the end of history and desert

Forever running and ringing eastward is a song

Therefore, my ancestors come in crowds

Or leave on all fours, and I

Am staring at the downfall and resurrection of time

— Preface

The war over. A broken dream

Along the season overwintering in the Arctic Ocean

Head lifted up in expectation of the waning moon

And blood dissolving into the depth of soul

Lying beneath the iron heel to splash a water road

Passing quickly, while I

Stand beside Mother, gazing at

The sorrowful face of the earth

— A crescent moon shines upon

The shadowy sacrificial day beneath the stone, and I

Disremember to dedicate an elegy to you— Mother what I should remember

Has been poured into the flower pattern of the blue sky

Time has shaken off the words which are shy like girls

Your graveness and sternness has rendered me silent and mute

Perhaps memory can bring a lengthy life of one hundred years

But I am not likely to be infatuated with the dewdrops on autumn leaves

Although stars may own such a day

Fermented days gradually shine

When we have covered a section of road

A black eagle wheels past

Perhaps time is a wrong symbol

365 days

Produce 365 tales of incarnation of souls

It is a memorial day once forgotten by people

It is the flower once rooted in desert

Which will be in the secret prison

To interpret an undefeated dream

A spell of wind has awakened

The howling of a black wolf in the vale therefrom

We have lost the naivety and romance of a poet

Extravagant days along the flood and ebb of the sea

Are comforted in the autumn waves of mountains

I go upward with time and extend with the road

Witnessing the river which has been silent for hundreds of years

I settle down and am still uninhibited

In a voice I often

Describe the image of a hand-stander

And to meet the free bourn by chance

Birth and death become the lie of philosophy

To lend color to the wild grass covering the bones

Of the dead, but

The blood dripping skull feels the great heaviness

And a flat road is blazed on the forehead of mountain

The largesse which makes time to deliver death in advance

Is showy at the end of the road in that wink

Overlapping stones rise tree roots spread out

To and fro between places of birth and death I remain motionless

The last wilderness

Far ahead of my behind-the-curtain

In a moment when the world awakes

To project a corner of deep layer of bright light

Adequate for generations to taste the filtered evening

Is eventually the myth concocted by the night

To extend a hand to give it over to the other hand

To exchange a kind of hostage

Such nights are blind to the sight

How to have the heart to carve on the back of the stone

The time of downfall sequence is still remembered

To have mutilated annual rings of the stone

At that time a philosopher passes here

And comes across a corpse exposed physically and mentally

Under the bottom of the sun to give off sparse light

To shine upon a piece of pure land

For no reason I am involved

To start off together with the wind

For no reason I am involved

To submit the soul and body of deity under weather exposure