Suddenly by Wang Yin – translated by Andrea Lingenfelter


 
 
this afternoon
a gigantic seagull
dive-bombed a pedestrian street
while fish exiled to the library for their crimes
were eating fruit

an accident victim carried a stretcher
down the road

when snow on the mountains drifts off to sleep
we will still be awake

this afternoon
a summer of reprisals drew to a close
 
 
2016