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A Generation
      GU Cheng (1979)


Dark night gives me dark eyes
And I use them to search for light

     

A Snap
      GU Cheng (1979)
Sunrays
After a flash in the sky
Are buried again by clouds

Storm develop
The negative of my soul

    

Awakening
      GU Cheng 
Gum from trees
Slow teardrops dripping
Glue together the shards of my heart

What locks us in love
Is not the joy in an orgy
But the pain we share

Far and Close
      GU Cheng (1980)
You
Look at me for a while
Look at clouds for a while

I feel you
So far away when you look at me
So close when you look at clouds
  

A Walk in the Rain
      GU Cheng (1980)
Clouds, gray upon gray
Cannot be washed clean
We open our umbrella
Instantly spreading darkness over the sky

Beneath this slow floating night
Two pairs of double stars
Appear to have no fixed orbits
Now close by, now apart

     

Arcs
      GU Cheng (1980)
Birds in strong wind
Suddenly turn directions

A kid bends
To pick up a coin

Vines extend their antennae
Of filament, to touch fantasy

Sea waves ebb
And arc up their ridges

    

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