Featured Poet ~ SS 2018
Hongri Yuan, born in China in 1962, is a poet and philosopher interested particularly in creation. Representative works include Platinum City, Gold City, Golden Paradise , Gold Sun and Golden Giant.
The World Is in a Box
The world is in a box
The little timeworn world
A Lilliputs
Those kings，premiers and presidents
Those dwarfs in the scroll of time picture
They do not believ the additional sun
Both like a diamond and like a gold
Make you warm in winter
Make you cool in summer
Neither have they seen the sweet ocean
nor have they known the heaven outside time
Forgeten those gods whom like mountains
Are the ancient former own
9.1.2012
Translated by Yuanbing zhang
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To view more from this author pick up a copy of the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of The Stray Branch.