Life
I cherished you
the way I used to cherish
a black sugar candy when I was a kid
licking it
then putting it back in its wrapper
then licking it again
licking more and more slowly
wrapping quicker and quicker
now it’s just me and the wrapper
I try not to be sad
About the translators
Austin Woerner is a Creative Fellow in Chinese-English literary translation at the University of Leeds.
Yu Yang is an MA student studying English Literature at the University of Leeds.