Tag: Ye Chun

7. Olympia, Washington The Pacific Ocean shovels coals in the distance. My drunk friends drop pebbles at me as I lie on the couch losing water. Be happy, be happy, be happy. I’m trying to see spring sprout, mountain that smells like green apple,

5. Lhasa Seeds tier in a pomegranate. Sweat beads convex-mirror corners of a night. You pick up a piece of coal from roadside, wrap it in a blue and green checked handkerchief

4. Shenzhen Streetlamps imitate stars. Stains on a hotel ceiling imitate mountains, boats and ruins. …either do great good or great evil, the journalist, 23, says. We walk

3. Zhongzhou, Luoyang This area is between brown and purple. All the apartment buildings look the same. I need to lie down, call out your name to one of the black-barred

1.Niujie, Beijing When the earth shakes, hunching grandma picks me up, cousin’s uneven leg shadow-puppets the window. The sky lowers like father’s raincoat till the old lady carried out by her son