September 2024
Yongo Ma
451796884@qq.com
Bio Note: I was born in 1964. PhD, translator, editor, and leading scholar of postmodern poetry. I have authored or translated more than 80 published books. I am a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Literature at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. My translations from English include works by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W.C.Williams, John Ashbery, Herman Melville and others.

Parallel

You repair the window glass, I repair my poems
You stand at a distance to see how it looks when your work is done
The landscape you see is real and flowing

I go to view the landscape after I repair the poems
But between landscape and me
there is more than just a window glass

I see, through my poems, aspects of scenery 
and you as well
But you will never know
which makes me happy in secret

My emptiness from writing is fulfilled somehow
As for what others see through my poems
I know nothing

©2024 Yongo Ma
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