Capricorn by Yu Xiaoman

 

 

Capricorn

                                 by Yu Xiaoman

My Egyptian queen sits upon a chair of moonlight.

Across her fingers, emerald waters ripple like a lake.

A black cat drifts in, spectral, as you are now.

 

摩羯座

                     余小蛮

我的埃及女王坐在月光椅上

手指上的绿宝石湖水荡漾

黑猫幽幽的走来，就像你现在这样

 

Yu Xiaoman, born in 1970s, a woman poet from Daqing, Heilongjiang, is a prolific writer.