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He Xiaozhu

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Wind

stepping out, all is wind
wind beneath your clothes pulls you
these are your first steps in a highland city
wind tearing at your two feet
you are afraid that beyond the city gate is the abyss
cities of the highlands
like grains of sand on paper
trembling in the wind

© Translation: 2007, d dayton

WIND

© 2007, He Xiaozhu
From: 6 Verbs or Apples
Publisher: Hebei jiaoyu chubanshe,

He Xiaozhu

He Xiaozhu

He Xiaozhu is a poet of the periphery in China, both imagined and real. Born in 1963 to a Han mother and a Miao (also known as Hmong) father in Pengshui county, Sichuan (now Chongqing), his mixed ethnic identity and rural home deeply shaped his view of the world and language. As an outsider to mainstream Chinese culture, he was motivated from an early age to pursue a poetics of difference and, ...

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Wind

stepping out, all is wind
wind beneath your clothes pulls you
these are your first steps in a highland city
wind tearing at your two feet
you are afraid that beyond the city gate is the abyss
cities of the highlands
like grains of sand on paper
trembling in the wind

© 2007, d dayton
From: 6 Verbs or Apples

Wind

stepping out, all is wind
wind beneath your clothes pulls you
these are your first steps in a highland city
wind tearing at your two feet
you are afraid that beyond the city gate is the abyss
cities of the highlands
like grains of sand on paper
trembling in the wind

© 2007, d dayton

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