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<\/a>Detail from Ai Weiwei: Fault Line<\/em>. Foreground: marble replicas of twisted iron rebar pulled from one of the schools that collapsed in the Sichuan Earthquake (Rebar and Case<\/em>, 2014). Background: the names of the 5,196 school children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Photograph by Ian Boyden.<\/p><\/div> JULY 2<\/p>\n \u718a\u6bc5 One star for each year he lived, <\/p>\n JULY 5<\/p>\n \u79c0\u71d5 She flew around and around the pagoda, <\/p>\n JULY 6<\/p>\n \u5d17 Each day, his name materialized above his name\u2014 <\/p>\n JULY 8<\/p>\n \u7fe0\u73b2 Were a bird to become stone and keep flying. She lay down her brush whispering, She left the brush dry without washing it. <\/p>\n JULY 9<\/p>\n \u50b3\u5764 Passed from one generation to the next, <\/p>\n JULY 10<\/p>\n \u9673\u6797 The forest seemed limitless, rising, leafing, <\/p>\n JULY 17<\/p>\n \u5f6c As she wrote, a line of trees branched the blue void. <\/p>\n JULY 24<\/p>\n \u664f\u9298 Carved into stone, into the sky\u2019s edge. <\/p>\n JULY 25<\/p>\n \u4f9d\u9298 Tailored of ineffable cloth. <\/p>\n JULY 26<\/p>\n \u7131\u6587 He captured just a little wisp of smoke. <\/p>\n JULY 28<\/p>\n \u751c\u751c A name rolling with melons, hives of honey, fields of sugar cane\u2026 <\/p>\n JULY 30<\/p>\n \u5929\u5a01 He carried no iron into battle. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read more from Ian Boyden’s “A Forest of Names” in the following links:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Introduction to ‘A Forest of Names'”<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 January selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 February selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 March selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 April selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 May selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 June selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 August selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 September selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 October selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 November selections<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nResolute Bear<\/p>\n
\ncircling our hearts like a long-handled spoon.<\/p>\n
\nElegant Swallow<\/p>\n
\nbells hanging from the eves that still bear her name.<\/p>\n
\nRidgeline<\/p>\n
\na cloud, held in a blue matrix of his own making.<\/p>\n
\nKingfisher Jade Ringing<\/p>\n
\nWere a bell to become feather and keep ringing.<\/p>\n
\nWere earth to remain earth and stay still.<\/p>\n
\nThe hairs became a solid point of black carbon
\nwhose words were forever withheld.<\/p>\n
\nTo Transmit Earth<\/p>\n
\nthis protean sphere rimmed with lightning.<\/p>\n
\nNarrator of Forests<\/p>\n
\na fluid temple upon the undulating earth.<\/p>\n
\nRefined<\/p>\n
\nOn the earth below, we read the shadow of her mind.<\/p>\n
\nCloudless Inscription<\/p>\n
\nShadows rolled, but never across his name.<\/p>\n
\nIntimate Inscription<\/p>\n
\nThe subject of the inscription
\nthe very matrix of its content.<\/p>\n
\nWritten of Infinite Fire<\/p>\n
\nMade an ink to give verse to an entire lifetime.<\/p>\n
\nSweet Sweet<\/p>\n
\nbut none sweeter than the child\u2019s laugh.<\/p>\n
\nCelestial Awe<\/p>\n
\nWhen he lifted his hand,
\nhe brandished the sky.<\/p>\n