A Person Watches the Moon Rise by Xiao An

 The One Who Watches the Moon Rise

 

Alone, one watches the moon rise.
The moon is as quiet as that person.
Each is alone before the other,
and neither speaks a word.

 

Time passes as the moon walks the sky.
It moves farther and farther away,
until the sky is utterly clean.

 

小安（60后）

 

一个人看月亮升起

 

一个人看月亮升起

静静的月亮就像那个人

他们彼此孤独

谁也不说一句话

 

时间流逝就像月亮在天上走动

它越走越远

直到天空干干净净

 

 Xiao An, born in 1960s, a woman poet who has been working in a mental hospital for many years, is an often mentioned figue among the "spoken word" mode of poetry writing. She lives in Chengdu.