Happy New Year, 2016! From poetryfoundation.org.
from New Year / by Bei Dao, translated by David Hinton and Yanbing Chen
a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year
a conductor tattooing darkness
listens to the shortest pause
21st-Century Chinese Poetry
DPF / Dao
Another for 2015, from Poetry Foundation, at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180394.
from New Year / by Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai, b. 1949), translated by David Hinton and Yanbing Chen
a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year
a conductor tattooing darkness
listens to the shortest pause
Daily Poetry Fragments {Semi-Daily} 