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A selection of poems | atonement

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A selection of poems | atonement

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Text/Zhang Xiaobai

1

Coming down from the construction elevator, my white skin turned red

Thinking of the wind on the 73rd floor, death is not a way back

Eleven years ago, a wind in the autumn sent away the living

That's my grandmother

Straw beds, quilts washed many times

Her high blood pressure murdered her as many times as she went

To this day, I still accuse high blood pressure

Including me, who has no soul

2

Father, call me at 21:06

Speaking of my profession, I can transfer jobs without

I said no, and on the grounds that I was busy at work

Hang up the phone. Subtle sounds from the entry line

I can think of him at this moment in front of the balcony

He would light a cigarette and put his hands on the parapet

Torn yellow face by the cold wind

He once said it was atonement

Yes, after the grandmother died

He prepared a coffin

"After I died, I was buried in the old chai forest."

Don't let my suffering be planted in the hearts of my children," the father admonished

3

It was a decade earlier, and I stepped out of the van

In the old woman in the brick house, she sewed a small shirt

Lamps hanging from rotten beams, rarity of the 70s

I don't know why there is

The left hand that was pricked by the needle was still struggling

Blood flowed out and into the fabric of the new clothes

Years later

"That room disappeared, little shirt who wore it away"

A selection of poems | atonement

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