"A Picture" for Tiantian's fifth birthday.
Did you want to explain the character--
Yes.
--Tiantian?
Actually, these poems are for my daughter Tiantian's
fifth birthday.
Actually, I got this her postcard--
one that being exile.
We separated each other that time for over a year.
So actually, whole image--
the images came from her postcard.
And her name, actually nickname, is
like the power of the windows.
Tian, Tiantian, I pair it with windows.
So that time, I don't know when I can see her,
because she and her mother not allowed
to go abroad to join me.
So we had been separated for over six years.
Yeah, that was that moment when I wrote this poem.
"A Picture."
Morning arrives in a sleeveless dress.
Apples tumble all over the Earth.
My daughter is drawing a picture.
How vast is a five-year-old's sky.
Your name has two windows.
One opens toward a sun with no clock hands.
The other opens toward your father,
who has become a hedgehog in exile,
taking with him a few unintelligible characters
and a bright red apple.
He has left your painting.
How vast is a five-year-old sky.
画儿 给甜甜5岁生日
穿无袖连衣裙的早晨到来
大地四处滚动着苹果
我的女儿在画画
5岁的天空是多么辽阔
你的名字是两扇窗户
一扇开向没有指针的太阳
一扇开向你的父亲
它变成了逃亡的刺猬
带上几个费解的字
一只最红的苹果离开了你的画儿
5岁的天空是多么辽阔