Concordance [Working backward in sleep]

Poem by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Illustration by Kiki Smith


Working backward in sleep, the
last thing you numbed to is what
wakes you.

What if that image were Eros as
words?

What would it be like if you
contemplated my words and I felt
you?

Animals, an owl, frog, open their
eyes, and a mirror forms on the
ground.

When insight comes in a dream,
and events the next day
illuminate it, this begins your
streaming consciousness,
synchronicity, asymptotic lines
of the flights of concordances.

An owl opens its eyes in deep
woods.

For the first time, I write and you
don't know me.

Milkweed I touch floats.

刚洗了脸

晚上我给BEBe讲了故事，他的鼻子有点塞，又给他喷了一点通鼻塞的药，督促他撒尿，然后终于他上床睡觉了，给他关灯，我来到自己的卧室。不一会，他探进脑袋来，看看我，然后走进来，给了我三个quaters，说给你钱。他要感谢我的时候就这样，他不知道每天我把他送进教室一转身，就长吁一口气。

他对数字的概念是很多的时候就是８个，然后太多了就是１００。我说“给你两个饼干垫垫肚子吧”，他说“不，我要８个，不，１００个”。他认为事情严重的时候就是要爆炸了，“我饿得要爆炸了”，“高兴得要爆炸了”。

很多人尤其是喜欢孩子的人见到他的样子就笑，中国超市里的cashier听他说话笑得腰都弯了。我却不以为然，我对他太熟悉了，老以为这些好玩逗乐都是呼之即来的。

Christina's world by Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009)

Gallery Lable Text
The woman crawling through the tawny grass was the artist's neighbor in Maine, who, crippled by polio, "was limited physically but by no means spiritually." Wyeth further explained, "The challenge to me was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless." He recorded the arid landscape, rural house, and shacks with great detail, painting minute blades of grass, individual strands of hair, and nuances of light and shadow. In this style of painting, known as magic realism, everyday scenes are imbued with poetic mystery.

你只能到同一个去处去寻找似曾相识的情感

Suspension Bridge

（Mei-mei Berssenbrugge）

You say all of us
even if we fail become lights
along the awesome bones. Separated
by darkness, humming through wires
on windy nights, bellying out
you’re so sure the current is personal

Not like the firefly
that lives for a month
jolted at random by a blank force
that never knows the brightness
of its shocked body
even on cool nights above the grasses
when it loves, victim to victim.

今天晚上很想读一些诗歌，去poetry magazine的网站，随便点一些作者的连接没有喜欢的，然后想起了那个去世的黑人的网站，他过去的文章里推荐了很多他喜欢的作品，像这一首。

Jjill jacket

很喜欢这件Jjill短皮夹克,Jjill这个牌子主要面对的是中年女性,但很多款式看起来很一般甚至老式,但穿在身上却别样简单而且有风格.就像这件夹克的颜色,银灰色,因为皮质很容易看起来显旧,可配上同色系的围巾看起来就很顺眼,至少我自己很满意淘到了它.:)只是现在是冬天，至少要等几个月才能穿出门．

a beach view taken by one net friend from forum

According to the pictures he offten posted and introduced,he always photographs birds,all kinds of birds.Sometimes he drives hundreds miles to see birds,no matter rainy or windy. This one was taken on Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, NJ. I like the viewing angle for this beach. Obviously, although the water looks rippling and the earth is coverd by sunshine,it is the ocean in winter.

I also like the color of dark blue sea, nestled by those grotesque stone. Of course there are more to explore, the red lighthouse, standing in far front, but not neglectable.