Record of Twin Cities Poem by Yang Lian

Infinitely harder than granite pear blossoms Protracted busy tone on the telephone White like a ringing in the ears hangs up another spring bedroom Footsteps taken apart decorate a beautiful address Dry skating rink stores dead fragrances Person with the same name as you a naked body flying far away Is discharged on an alumina street ladder reaching the clouds Lust awakens another bout of all night rain Spring strips away fertile underpants Pear tree unmoving climbs into a telephone book's Abstraction veranda in complete darkness Time difference unreels the silk cocoon of an inch thick past Sky separating into two small red moist parts Sucks the complex numbers of your skull An existence twice fabricated defiles your non-existence Pear blossoms coldly construct glass masks and swamps