English Poems

An Outline of a Detective Novel

I use the witchcraft
of lie detection
to track a love affair.

Tonight the north wind is brisk,
rain on the Prime Meridian.

I fell in love
with a girl of aerodynamic advantage,
implanting in her eyes
the river of my hometown,
where mother will drown.

A patient with peripheral neuritis
kills his wife
for the second time
after reincarnation.

Autumn Equinox,
neutering a blind cat.
Winter Solstice,
treating carrion insects for fever.

Heat Fever

In the final leap second,
a weather-sick hound
devours a city.

Here samsara
feeds white phosphorus.
Here patron saints
bless bounding mines.

Within the radar echoes,
viscera begins to dampen.
Nerves are slow-cooked
over a low flame.
The monsoon
castrates romanticism.

Rotting—
is but a prolonged burning.
Burning—
is merely an instant
of rotting.

South of the Tropics,
flags fly at half-mast
for her ghost
and his.

I suppose you know

I suppose you know.
You know the body
does not betray us suddenly.

First, the skin learns
to endure the heat.
Then the bones
grow heavier,

as if the climate
had entered them.

At night, the mouth
tastes of salt.
Sleep becomes shallow.
Something in the blood
stays awake.

I suppose you know:
only afterward
does the State appear,
quiet and exact.

It counts the pulse.
It records the fever.
It decides what may be said
and what must remain
inside the flesh.

In the white room,
someone speaks a formula.

Outside, clove smoke rises
from a hand
with another method.

Neither one is innocent.
Both want the pain
to yield an answer.

By noon,
the air becomes violent.
The mangroves darken.
Dampness enters
the files,
the houses,
the lungs of witnesses.

Even the rain
falls like enforcement.

And love—
you know
it is only this:

two altered beings
keeping between them
a little coolness,

while the century
goes on writing
its orders into bone.

Chinese Poems

新世界

城市发射走夜晚
月球也不会有梦

现在还是
复制了过去

机器们的潮汐

如果倒放所有坠落
那么死亡
就会疾速地奔向生活

如果倒放所有爆炸
那么碎片
就会猛烈地成为生命

最终我们忘记了历史
最终他们忘记了名字

太阳与风的民族啊
生活在引力里

高楼美丽
人民幸福

光学内脏与太阳能忧郁症

肢体干旱
土地患病

山林与我
都忘记了母亲

砍断双手
借给国家

贫铀弹与我
都是流民

磁带惊魂
夜袭无风带

我的心脏
开始大过我的身体

在一个短命的夜晚
一个早夭的冬天

做一个迷信的人

用一颗魔法子弹
一种科学手段
杀死我

然后
没有心跳地活着

关于身体的进化植物学

我与我
互为凶手

谋杀了一个
例外的幽灵

契约杀人
给死人寄信

人体计划经济
植物意识形态

牙齿开始退火

说一个反抗的故事

心脏长出鱼鳞
游进自留地的地下河

静脉里的噪音
是宇宙季节的秘密