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Walk Towards Each Other
​by Zhang Zhihao
​translated from Chinese by Yuemin He

​One girl walking in your direction would lower her head
One group of girls would force you to lower your head
One group of girls walking is like a series of musical notes
cavorting, refusing to stay in boundaries of the staff 
the widest road is too crowded 
the most arrogant man can be conquered
Yesterday afternoon I followed him
the back of his balding head in view
The sun was about to set
I felt like crying

​逆行

​一个女孩逆行的时候往往会低着头
但一群女孩逆行时她们会逼迫你低下头去
一群女孩迎面走来像一串音符
在跳荡,却不拘囿于五线谱
再宽的马路也是拥挤的
再趾高气扬的男人都不在话下
昨天下午我跟在他身后
看着他越来越稀疏的后脑勺
太阳就要落山了
我有点想哭

Zhang Zhihao [张执浩]
Zhang Zhihao [张执浩] is one of the most accomplished contemporary Chinese poets. Author of ten poetry collections as well as several books of fiction and essay collections, he has won almost all the prestigious poetry awards in China, including the Luxun Literary Prize for poetry, which is the Chinese equivalent to the Pulitzer poetry prize. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Chinese Poetry, a quarterly poetry magazine in Wuhan, China.
Yuemin He
Yuemin He has published on East Asian literature and visual art, Asian American literature, Buddhist American literature, and composition pedagogy. Her poetry translations appear in more than twenty literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The Cincinnati Review, Delos, and Oxford Anthology of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (2nd ed.). Currently, she is an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College. 

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