Paradox Hu Liang
Between the decadence and the flower fist embroidered legs, there is a ferrosin.
Between silence and rhetoric, there is a strain of iron helactin.
Between loneliness and the children's choir, there is a strain of iron helocytes.
Iron ossin is an orchid that looks a lot like it
A new kind of poetry. This strain of iron hewn
Survive by sulking. This strain of iron hewn
Having retreated into the ground, it hoped it could do it as soon as possible
Extinct. however...... it...... But it is getting more and more verdant...
A Paradox
by Hu Liang
Between hedonism and tawdriness, there is a flower called Tiegusu.
Between reserve and flattery, there is Tiegusu, with white flowers and lanky stems.
Between solitude and festivity, there is this white-hearted spiny plant.
Tiegusu is an orchid, almost the perfect double
of modern poetry. This orchid
thrives on soreheadedness. It
has withdrawn into its tiny turf, and hopes to die, fast
and childless. However... it... is looking more and more profuse…
Hu Liang, born in 1975, is a poet, commentator, and essayist. He is the author of "Snow of Interpretation", "Glass Crisp", "Virtual Concealment", "Peeping Leopard Record", "Fruitless", "Out of plum into summer", "Poet of Eternal Life", "Prelude to Force", "JingyinYu Research Anthology" (co-editor), "About Chen Ziang: Dedication to Poetry, Papers and Chronology" (co-editor). He was awarded the 5th Houtian Culture and Art Award, the 2nd Yuan Kejia Poetry Award, the 9th Sichuan Literature Award, and the 3rd Jian'an Literature Award. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a contracted writer of the Ba Jin Academy of Literature. He currently lives in Suizhou, Central Shu.
Translated by Duck Yard Lyricists
Duck Yard Lyricists is a group of devoted poetry lovers: Meifu Wang, Michael Soper, & Guy Hibbert.
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Translated by Duck Yard Lyricists
Editor: Wang Aofei, Second Instance: Man Man, Final Trial: Jin Shikai
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