Writers Day Sign | Jing Wendong: Gravity, growing into the nihilistic night sky

Poet of this issue, Jing Wendong

Jing Wendong, who received his Doctor of Literature degree in 1999, is now a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Literature and Journalism and Communication of minzu University of China. The 2nd Western Literature Biennial Award for Novels (2012), the 2nd Tang Han Literature Research Award (2013), the 4th Dongdangzi Poetry Criticism Award (2017), the 2017 Excellent Paper Award of Modern Chinese Literature Research Series (2018), the 2nd Chen Ziang Poetry Critics Award (2018), the 16th Chinese Literature and Media Awards Critic Award (2018), and was selected into the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" (2013).

Grass, Swallow

Text/Jing Wendong

Even the most humble grass is trying to break free

Gravity, growing towards the nihilistic night sky.

It does have something to commend

will. Besides, it never jealously spreads its wings and can fly

Swallow; not to mention that it is willing to come from fate

Extract sugars, dopamine and protein.

Even the most humble grass is secretly envious

The swallows will fly without flying

That moment. What an elegant moment!

It was a moment that didn't even deserve a sigh!

It was a moment that never came again!

Even the humblest grass can be perceived first

The secret of the wind, the fortune of the wind and the good and evil of the wind.

Even the humblest grass

Also eligible to pray:

May the swallows be sponsored by the wind when they glide

May the swallows save their strength,

Used to listen to everything at night

The plucking sound that is emitted.