Memory of My Yellow Hometown

 Selected Poems by Airuo   Translated by Berlin  Fang

  

March marches on

Insects wake[1]

 

Rapeseed flowers

You boundless yellow sea

 

Those chicken weeds[2]

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

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[1] “Insects waking” is the third of the 24 terms that make up a solar year.It starts usually on March 5, 6 or 7.

[2]  Nickname for Poa annua, a weed that is a favorite food for chicken, often found in rapeseed fields.