I’ve been walking toward it, toward it.
I am one thousand miles closer to it now
but it doesn’t move toward me at all. No, not at
all.
If it could, will it move toward me
even if just for a few miles?
I could have held that tree, yes that tree on the mountain top,
to cry
or left my teeth marks on a stone
at the foot of that mountain.
Tang Guo was born in 1972 in Sichuan province of China but lives in the Dêqên autonomous county of Yunnan, southwest China. As an “internet poet” of the 21st century, she has published two collections of poems, For You and Zipper—Poems 2000-2014.