#(2014)

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Home is where humanity treads.

— XIANG YANG ⚜️ Grass Roots: Selected Poems, transl. by John Balcom, (2014)

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The lingering cloud-mist like a concealing veil, tempts the mountains with secret love.

— XIANG YANG ⚜️ Grass Roots: Selected Poems, transl. by John Balcom, (2014)

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Give me such a dream where the dream in a dream will come true tomorrow.

— XIANG YANG ⚜️ Grass Roots: Selected Poems, transl. by John Balcom, (2014)

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Love & hate seek mutual warmth in their perpetual fight.

— XIANG YANG ⚜️ Grass Roots: Selected Poems, transl. by John Balcom, (2014)

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The blue-black sky conceals a hallucinatory red.

— XIANG YANG ⚜️ Grass Roots: Selected Poems, transl. by John Balcom, (2014)

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Is this how you arrive? Ripples & echoes linger over the quiet water.

— XIANG YANG ⚜️ Grass Roots: Selected Poems, transl. by John Balcom, (2014)

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What I hide, I’ll hide till hell closes down and the river’s dark eye is done with tears.

— KIM ADDONIZIO ⚜️ My Black Angel: Blues Poems & Portraits, (2014)