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<\/a>Detail from Ai Weiwei: Fault Line<\/em>. Foreground: a marble replica 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> SEPTEMBER 1<\/p>\n \u68ee\u6797 Once planted, the name proliferated. Any footprints quickly disappear.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 3<\/p>\n \u9e3f\u81e3 Eye of the storm <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 5<\/p>\n \u73ca\u5409 Great libraries ring the outer banks, Our luck to float through such majesty, <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 7<\/p>\n \u7a4e Have you listened to the love song of the wind? <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 9<\/p>\n \u9298\u7693 The autumn spider weaves its inscriptions It may not yet have caught an insect, <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 13<\/p>\n \u5d07\u6797 She knelt before the mountain, <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 14<\/p>\n \u79c0\u6885 We scarcely noticed the tree writing its poem Then we eyed the dark birds gathering to the fruit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 15<\/p>\n \u601d\u8a9e She became a reflection of words, <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 17<\/p>\n \u96ea The snow fell, a powder of light. <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 22<\/p>\n \u6797\u6df3 I raise my glass to those simple roots. <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 25<\/p>\n \u6797\u6d32 He rose from within the swirling water of time. <\/p>\n SEPTEMBER 27<\/p>\n \u539a\u78ca Generous Earth. Kind Earth. <\/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 July selections<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 August 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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\nInfinity of Trees<\/p>\n
\nToday, desert sand fills around the ancient trunks.<\/p>\n
\nMinister of the Swan<\/p>\n
\nthat brings the flood
\nand leaves behind
\na single white feather.<\/p>\n
\nCoral Luck<\/p>\n
\ncoral-red books bound by a jade-green sea.<\/p>\n
\neven as their words fade in the bleaching currents.<\/p>\n
\nTassel<\/p>\n
\nIt trembles every blade, the mind of the meadow at play.<\/p>\n
\nInscription of Luminosity<\/p>\n
\nwith dew, with shifting light.<\/p>\n
\nbut it has caught my heart.<\/p>\n
\nForest of Veneration<\/p>\n
\nto all sides, the forest of her ancestors\u2014
\na long lineage that ended with her name.<\/p>\n
\nFlourishing Plum<\/p>\n
\nuntil the last lines filled with golden light.<\/p>\n
\nLanguage of Thought<\/p>\n
\nan expression of language,
\neven after the harrowing of the heart\u2019s field.<\/p>\n
\nSnowfall<\/p>\n
\nCorrupt hands brushed it away,
\nyet remained caked with black dust.<\/p>\n
\nForest of Simple Honesty<\/p>\n
\nMay they wedge apart the foundations of complicity.<\/p>\n
\nForested Island<\/p>\n
\nHis heart a forest\u2014generous and intimate as an autumn song.<\/p>\n
\nSubstantial Mass of Stone<\/p>\n
\nAbundant, honest, and sincere.
\nA child of the days.<\/p>\n