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Poetry

Memory of My Yellow Hometown

By Airuo
Translated from Chinese by Berlin Fang

March marches on
Insects wake1
Rapeseed flowers
You boundless yellow sea

Those chicken weeds2
Slim and slender

Ten years I have been away from home
Ten hundred miles I am apart

What a flaming season this is
In my hometown of a yellow rapeseed sea

1“Insects waking” is the third of the twenty-four periods that make up a solar year. It starts usually on March 5, 6 or 7.
2Nickname for Poa annua, a weed that is a favorite food for chicken, often found in rapeseed fields.

By arrangement with the authors. Translations copyright 2008 by Berlin Fang. All rights reserved.

English

March marches on
Insects wake1
Rapeseed flowers
You boundless yellow sea

Those chicken weeds2
Slim and slender

Ten years I have been away from home
Ten hundred miles I am apart

What a flaming season this is
In my hometown of a yellow rapeseed sea

1“Insects waking” is the third of the twenty-four periods that make up a solar year. It starts usually on March 5, 6 or 7.
2Nickname for Poa annua, a weed that is a favorite food for chicken, often found in rapeseed fields.

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