|
JIANQING ZHENG |
| The Landscape of Mind | |
| 2001, 36 pages |
| "The
poems in Jianqing Zheng's The Landscape of Mind are often quick movements
of light and touch and tone. Like 'two boats' shadows / overlapping,' lives
and images rub up against each other and leave their marks." —Michael Burkard |
After Rain
Now on the wind,
thousands of gray horses
roll away the fevered air.
Tomatoes, eggplants,
bok choy and soybeans
pallet the beds in sparkles.
Under a broken cart,
a few white ducks
preen their feathers.
Along the creek,
willows glaze with raindrops
like strings of crystals.
A croak stirs the quiet,
another one,
then a chorus of frogs.
I sit on the threshold
dabbing tobacco and dusk
into the cupped paper.