Snowscape    Hsu ChiCheng

Facing a snowscape

I am standing here

Facing a snowscape

This is a snowscape that occupies a boundless land

Which stretches to distance and infinity …

The boundless blanket of whiteness, refusing

To melt, is more extensive and expansive

Watching it I am filled with fright

Watching it I feel colder and I tremble more

A snowscape which is colder and which trembles more upon watching

A crown of white hair which brings more cold and fear

Poems of the World  Winter 2013-2014