Huang Pingzi reads Yaya's "Winter Field"
—New Century Poetry, 3951
Winter fields
Yaya
Tano
A desolation
Remnants are stored in the fields
After the contractor harvests
The remaining straw stalks
In the wind
Withered
More than twenty years ago
Ten Mile Mile Wave
No longer exists
Ditch side
High
Poplar trees
Towering bird's nest
Still in place
2021.1.7
Huang Pingzi reads poems: Yaya: real name Huang Yamei, a native of Changde, Hunan, after 60. Member of the Aurf Poetry Society. "Field/a desolate field", this is the field of winter, this is the field after the harvest. "The remnants remain in the field / After the contractor harvested / The remaining grass poles / In the wind / Withered", after the harvest of the crops, only the grass poles remain in the field. This particularly emphasized "contractor" should not be the contractor of the household contract responsibility system, right? In many areas, farmers no longer farm. Rural fields have been subcontracted, that is, secondary contracting. "Twenty years ago/ ten mile wheat wave / no longer exists", wheat is the crop of the north, the main crop of the south is rice. Many farmers in the south no longer grow rice. Don't the farmers in the north grow wheat anymore? Neither rice nor wheat has a high economic value, and the contractor should choose crops that are more economically efficient to grow. "Ditch side / tall / poplar tree / Towering bird's nest / Still in place", this nest is certainly not another bird's nest. In recent years, the state has banned bird hunting and bird hunting. There are trees and grasses everywhere on our side, and there are many birds and animals of all kinds, and the same is true if you want to come to the north. It's another kind of field, another kind of countryside, another kind of nature. January 28, 2022 21:04
