29 December 2008

Sweet Revenge

I’ll take your shadow and add a little salt
pickle it
                  dry it in the wind
When I’m old
I’ll wash it down with wine

–Xia Yu 夏宇 (Hsia Yü, b.1956)
(tr. Andrea Lingenfelter)

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