Violent Siberian Cold Snap
孔宅故井
In (good) sooth you Exactly A lotus
deep
顺着地垄走
A person of (no) importance Buskin artist Final Contrail Poems
dull pain
(surname) overlord
surname sultaness
Birds and Nest Poems
cherish father
Lao Niang
Qiu Grasshopper
范进疯了
October uni- commentary
| Multiple poems at a time |
好猛的西伯利亚寒流Violent Siberian Cold Snap
好猛的西伯利亚寒流
Wang XuSheng
Although windows and doors were shut tight,
the students, without thick clothes, were shivering
like a thin sheet of paper.
It's really not easy for the Siberian cold snap,
marching across the frontier
and through the inland provinces to Shandong,
to carry out the long-range raids upon our class,
the geography teacher said.
Bleak was the view outside the building.
Teeth of the children chattered
like the rustling twigs on the plain.
No longer able to watch the students' suffering,
the young teacher slowly lifted the globe,
and decisively ____insert____ed his first and middle fingers
into the notorious wind gap in the Altai Mountains.
At once the sound of the wind died down.
The sun shone through the window panes.
Flowers bloomed and birds sang along.
But that was a temporary lull,
After which, the emotional teacher cried out
And fell down on the ground, deathly pale,
The two fingers of his right hand darkening.
As for the globe, hard ice, two fingers deep
Spread over the long and narrow land
between the Tianshan and the Altai Mountains.
Translator: Kino Lee
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