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Two magpies were foraging on the grass.
Silently they flew away, when I passed.
No matter how much caution I took, there's no stage
of kindness by self-assumption.
Back to the moment I beheld them from a distance,
I was thinking that they no longer seemed to be magpies
when they did not crow,
but just hungry birds with a mess of feathers
Since when I became so determined
that magpies should look like magpies ?
Since when I had assumed that a wizard bitten by a snake
will no longer be a wizard ?
I was relieved of these questions when the magpies
fluttered away in their own epiphany. Some day in the future
I might be an autumn insect fed in their belly
that no longer chirps.
About the author:
Yu Xiaozhong is from Hubei province. His works appear in many major Chinese literature magazines and anthologies.
Silently they flew away, when I passed.
No matter how much caution I took, there's no stage
of kindness by self-assumption.
Back to the moment I beheld them from a distance,
I was thinking that they no longer seemed to be magpies
when they did not crow,
but just hungry birds with a mess of feathers
Since when I became so determined
that magpies should look like magpies ?
Since when I had assumed that a wizard bitten by a snake
will no longer be a wizard ?
I was relieved of these questions when the magpies
fluttered away in their own epiphany. Some day in the future
I might be an autumn insect fed in their belly
that no longer chirps.
About the author:
Yu Xiaozhong is from Hubei province. His works appear in many major Chinese literature magazines and anthologies.
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