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Book4 Poems on Reading by Yongbo Ma
Reading Poetry on a Rainy Night
This is no new revelation
lamps drift like beetles among the trees.
When the rain stops, crowds emerge
to speak, their words indistinct.
I begin to doubt if it ever rained at all.
A man hurrying home in the lull
seems pinned by shadows under the branches.
He strides in, climbs stairs, opens a window.
Darkness stirswind tilting raindrops sideways
and I wonder if I was ever truly reading,
or if the window was ever opened,
as though no one had ever entered here.
Reading in Flickering Light
The sky flickers, dim and bright by turns.
This is autumn at a crossroads in a small northern town.
I wait for a friend,
reading an old book bought from a local shop.
As I read, one or two girls in boots clatter past,
each one bearing her likeness.
From which direction will she come
from the past, or the future
The sky still flickers, dim and bright.
If she never comes, I will go on reading
until every page fades to blankness,
until all who wander the streets
turn into dark, solitary words.
I have long forgotten
which autumn, on which distant planet that was,
and who exactly I was waiting for.
A Vast Crowd Waits for Me at Home
They must be whispering to one another
Homer tunes his lyre, ready to sing of a mans wrath
Milton describes Satan and the flames of brimstone to his daughter
Borges, seizing the moment, condenses the universe into a single chart
Heraclitus and Parmenides
argue on and on about process and essence
Lucretius hangs aloft swarms of souls
heavy-laden, until they transform into the farthest stars
Ovid wanders alone on the shores of the Black Sea
Time his only companion
Dante counts the laurel leaves upon Virgils brow
Faust, racked with a splitting headache, is not weary of knowledge
only weary of his obstinate lover-pupil
Keats, eager, invites me to shine with him
Bishop, who loved women, prepares with green wine bottles
to teach me an art of losing, not hard to master
Pigeons rise from the abyss, wrapped in dense fog
Ariadne still clutches her ball of thread, sword laid at her feet
Odysseus black sails sail on beyond the setting sun
This whole lot babbles loudly, bumping foreheads with one another
only the nameless guest leans by the window, watching the rain outside
As if when I walk out, the rain drifts farther away
as if from now on, I am always on my way home
I know when I suddenly push open the door,
they will all wipe their expressions clear
like seabirds nesting on the cliff of a bookshelf, eyes bright and sharp
gazing silently down at a newborn infant
Spending a Quiet Afternoon Reading Ovid on the Double Ninth Festival
Sunlight glimmers high above.
Chrysanthemums everywhere shake their small fists in quiet protest.
Green mountains lie not far away. I do not go,
yet they remain, unchanging.
Autumn and silence abide there too,
as do the brown birds.
For years, they have trodden through fallen leaves,
wandering toward the deeper mountains,
like a crowd of noisy, tumbling children leaving school.
The gaunt little lake lingers there,
lingering over blue skies and distant echoes.
Dark silt hidden in reed beds,
a frail symbol of humanity, also dwells there.
And so I stay at home,
on the low southern slopes of Purple Mountain,
immersed in Ovids recollections,
lingering through a slow, tranquil afternoon.
He preserves autumn cherries in dark crimson lees.
For he once said:
so long as one knows not who he is,
one may live long into old age.
Copyright 2026 Yongbo Ma
All Rights Reserved
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