On Making It There

New Year

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Bei Dao

 
Translated By David Hinton and Yanbing Chen
 
 
a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year
a conductor tattooing darkness
listens to the shortest pause

hurry a lion into the cage of music
hurry stone to masquerade as a recluse
moving in parallel nights

who's the visitor? when the days all
tip from nests and fly down roads
the book of failure grows boundless and deep

each and every moment's a shortcut
I follow it through the meaning of the East
returning home, closing death's door
Landscape Over Zero (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition)
-from Landscape Over Zero

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