Inspiration
Beneath the tree we share our ambitions
You say you want to write biographies of the mountains
chronicle the rivers
Me, I just want to shoot a set of cloud portraits
paint a landscape in the window
(add a birdcall or two)
sketch one of my daughter's moments at home
Of course, she has to be standing in the courtyard
under the papaya tree
About the translators
Austin Woerner is a Creative Fellow in Chinese-English literary translation at the University of Leeds.
Du Wenjia is an MA student currently enrolled in the English Literature course at the School of English, University of Leeds.