A Long Distance Letter

A Long Distance Letter

 

 By Jing Yu

 

 Quietly busy

 I was at the stove

When your letter

 Falling in the summer gloaming

 

 Slowly picking the green leaves

 Also rolling the dough round again and again

 I mashed the garlic

 Spicy eye giving tears

 The cardamom ground into

 Vanishing remembrances in the fragrance

 

 Lily outside the window

 Stretching the memories of the past

 It said no need to reply

 Wish you and I stay well

 In own place

 

 

一封远方的来信

 

文/静语

 

当你的信

飘落在夏日黄昏的时候

我正在灶台边

平静地忙碌

 

青菜慢慢择了叶子

面团又一遍遍揉成了滚圆

我把蒜泥捣出了

刺眼的辛辣

也把豆蔻磨散成

清香里的遗忘

 

窗外的百合

舒展着往日的记忆

它说不必回信

愿你我都安好在

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