Poetry
Spirit of Butterflies Lovers, Story of A Chinese Classic Music
1.
it’s not the music
I care about, I want to know where they fly
the ancient classmates are only girls or boys
but there is an exception
when one tells the other “he” is “she”
he almost drops his teeth
the story is cut short by people in literature
but it’s put into music
on tapes and on stage
it’s not the music
I care about, I want to know how they fly
You see the butterflies fly freely
fly deep into summer
when the thunderstorms splash the tomb of
a desperate lover
the girl runs into his tomb
and the two become butterflies and fly
into the bones of their descendants
it’s not the music
we care about, we care about how they become
butterflies
2.
you fly, on the top of a mountain
you suck the honey of your young flowers
you surround me like a lying snake,
deep in my back, every pore there
every layer of my skin is burning, peeled by a finger
as thin as a needle
you dress me in layers of clothes,
clothes of grief,
grief of loss
loss of love
love of madness in music
next door to my poetry
Contributor
Shao WeiShao Wei is the recipient of the 1999 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award.
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