With a Heart as Hard as Stone: Selected Poems of Lin Leng

Author: Lin Ling
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Lin Ling, a newcomer in Taiwan's modern poetry scene, explores the inner self, employs organic imagery, and captures the natural flow of rhythmic tones. This book collects some of her works.
Excerpt:
"Micro-Awakening" – Written for a Gambler in Your Chest, Monte Carlo's Night, the One I Love is Roasting Fire, the Pine Branches He Collected Are Not Enough to Burn, Monte Carlo's Night, He Took My Hair, My Spine.
"Visitation" – You Need Not Be Astonished, My Past Companion, Willing to Shake Off Ten Years of Indifference at Your Doorbell, If Time Is a Vow, I Have Already Destroyed the Record of Time, That Dusty Robe Far Away Has Beened Clean by the Wind and Sand of This Small Town.
"After the Curtain Falls" – A Cold Liquid, Overflowing with Rampant Passion, Spills from a Pile of Melting Ice Cubes -- After the Curtain Falls -- I Also Came Out, Walking with Them, Like a Drop Among Them, Dispersed, How Cold the Thought, Who Can Retrieve the Flock of Sheep Lost on the Plains? (Perhaps Ice Is Formed This Way) I Raise My Collar, Though There Is No Wind, Everything Is Still, A Purposeless Bat Flies Out from the Darkness, and Dives into Another Darkness, Without Foolish Hesitation.
"Pathways" – You Are Horizontal, I Am Vertical, We Share the Four Quadrants of the Celestial Sphere, We Come From Where We Have Always Been, Pass Through Here, Meet. We Have Met Here After All, Surrounded by Water-Filled Paddy Fields, A Heron Alights, Quietly Standing, We Greet Each Other in Silence, Saying Farewell, Agreeing with Silence, Climbing Over Those Distant Two Mountains, Gazing Far Away (----A Pure White Feather Lightly Falls Down) When a Feather Falls, Ah, Then We Both Hope -- If Happiness Is Like a White Bird, It Once Flew Down Quietly. Yes, We Hope, Even Though They Have Wings......