Bei Dao, "Blue Wall"

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BLUE WALL

road chases sky asking

one wheel
seeks another to bear witness

this pelt of warmth
poetry of lightning
procreation and passion
this very moment or whole vistas reduced
dreamless

are gasoline's thrills


BEI DAO

Translated from the Chinese by David Hinton

The Good Morrow - John Donne

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then?

But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?

T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.

If ever any beauty I did see,

Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dreame of thee.

 

And now good morrow to our waking soules,

Which watch not one another out of feare;

For love, all love of other sights controules,

And makes one little roome, an every where.

Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,

Let us possesse one world; each hath one, and is one.

 

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,

And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest,

Where can we finde two better hemispheares

Without sharpe North, without declining West?

What ever dyes, was not mixed equally;

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.

Current -- Stuart Dybek

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CURRENT
Stuart Dybek

The third rail
and the electric chair

are charged with the current
that glows tonight

in the bedside lamp
illuminating your body.