Yuan Changming
NOT TO MENTION
Man, as he really is, is far beyond
God’s imagination, let alone understanding
If you really love Earth, you wouldn’t be
Afraid to show it to the world, let alone her
Most websites don’t even last fourteen
Months, let alone fourteen years
They never thought they’d be able to do
Any serious reading, let alone thinking
Some people can’t help inventing lies
Let alone telling them
The sun shines on you but not on me
Let alone my shadow
I always expect the world to leave me
Alone, let alone my poetry
PUNCTUATING WITH MARKS
, before any utterances from God
. behind the human reality in the moment
? after each sentence written in history
! at the end of every show of nature
THIS THOUGHT
This is the thought that is
Sailing along the horizon
This is the thought ready to fall
Finally from the leaf-tip at dawn
This is the thought looming afar
Beyond the stark mountains
This is the thought newly taken
Out of the water by the swordsmith
This is the thought with a bloated shape
Wrapping the whole world up in the mind
This is the thought running amuck
Naked, never able to find a shelter
This is the thought driving the wheels
Of history, back and forth, without stop