sappy eyes
this time last year by this door*
translated by PLS
it must be the climate, that breeds
the sappy view, allowing many a night
to infiltrate each other, borders blurred
the scent of bitter bamboo shoots strip the old year, this forest
endows time to another person with imagined silence
upon the tender green light, believing in the truth of dew
over treetops the desire of fruits reemerges, so much like
the subconsciousness that brims and cramps. right now
i am no isolated emptiness, but the secret
countless blooming periods glimpsed across the twigs
*from a poem written by Cui Hu, a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty.