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Bob Sward's Writer's Friendship Series
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Bei
Dao
Translated by Eliot Weinberger
June
Wind
at the ear says June
June
a blacklist I slipped
in
time
note
this way to say goodbye
the
sighs within these words
note
these annotations:
unending
plastic flowers
on
the dead left bank
the
cement square extending
from
writing to
now
I
run from writing
as
dawn is hammered out
a
flag covers the sea
and
loudspeakers loyal to the sea's
deep
bass say June
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Teacher's Manual
A
school still in session
irritable
restless but exercising restraint
I
sleep beside it
my
breath just reaching the next
lesson
in the textbook: how to fly
when
the arrogance of strangers
sends
down March snow
a
tree takes root in the sky
a
pen to paper breaks the siege
the
river declines the bridge invites
the
moon takes the bait
turning
the familiar corner
of
the stairs, pollen and viruses
damage
my lungs damage
an
alarm clock
to
be let out of school is a revolution
kids
jump over the railings of light
and
turn to the underground
other
parents and I
watch
the stars rise