Sun Tzu-ping

This piece by Sun Tzu-ping is translated by Nicholas Wong You both take your mutual assaults as lovemaking In the swift leaps of languageWeapons go soft like the vocal cordWhen the city corrupts without warning youIt leaves no place for reconstruction or undoingWhat follows is a grateful celebrationYou remove the thorns and blades that gradually …

This piece by Sun Tzu-ping is translated by Nicholas Wong According to the traditional Chinese calendar, the Dragon Boat Festival (which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the year) is an ominous day. Another new disease was invented.We sat in protest, listening to God call out our names We drowned half …