Poems of Vivian Zhou

替某刊物翻译的，但是和别人翻译的撞车了，所以把自己的翻译贴到自己的博客。

1.Time Is Cold

Time is cold
So cold it feels like a needle
That sees blood
Upon slight touch

You hide in the corner 
To avoid the pain of puncturing 
You watch the needles
Fly like random swords
Cutting everyone around you
They fall before your eyes
And stretching their hands to you
Moaning

You hide in the corner
Eyes shut
But the pains are still there
Stabbing you’re your belly from the brow
Needle by needle
You dare not open your eyes
To the crimson below

“Let time penetrate”
Pierced, fallen
Pain no longer felt
Finally, you walk out from the bunker
Time, like needles and
Swords, flies around you
But you just stand bare
Feeling no pain

Time is very cold
But not colder than a heart
Without pulse, a rock
Impenetrable

 

2. Waiting

Waiting is a torture
The longer the separation, the deeper
Like the days cut into flesh
Deep are the cuts, plain are the days, numb is the heart

Even greetings are redundant
Wind dances in dried branches
Shedding no leaves
Reluctant to look back at the end of the night
How far way will you find your Self at the start?

I know the day is near. If it is winter
Bringing away all the vivacity 
Leaving empty caves and yellow earth
Body quivers, in this field cold as grave
The city of desire is filled with white bones

Yet memories deep as forest is there
An occasional upward glance
Sees your smile but your hand is unreachable
Waiting is a desperate pain. On its margin
My limbs are frozen. Rooting until…….

I grow into a tree
Flowerless, fruitless

 

Biosketch of the Author

Vivian Zhou，is a founder of WePoetry which is a poetry network for all international chinese poets. She is also a freelance writer and editor, working for world weekly and poetry society of Wuzhou.Her travel essays have been published in 「world journal」and 「overseas digest」Her poetry has been collected into 「Flushing Poetry Festival Collection"」, 「Poetry hall 」and the poetry review 「a slave of freedom」. She graduated with 2 bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Economics from CUNY. Recently she is working for a financial institution in New York.

Her blog https://blog.wenxuecity.com/myindex/612/