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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: detail of the names of the 5,196 school children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Photograph by Ian Boyden.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 6<\/p>\n \u9f8d\u5f37 Tell us what was written with your shadow.<\/p>\n Long after the cicada\u2019s song enters autumn\u2019s soil, \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 10<\/p>\n \u85dd\u8c6a He kneads the earth Studies of impossible form \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 11<\/p>\n \u82af\u5100 Flame above the candle\u2019s black wick. \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 12<\/p>\n \u8776 Autumn wings, the wind. \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 13<\/p>\n \u92d2\u5149 The point itself cut a hole into darkness, \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 14<\/p>\n \u4e16\u6770 This is how we see \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 15<\/p>\n \u7fa9\u6046 A name never answered.<\/p>\n Each time the case is made, \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 18<\/p>\n \u96f2\u7434 A silk-white anvil Pillar of Earth. Jade, fallen from the highest peaks, \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 21<\/p>\n \u50b3\u5b87 The shuttle passes back and forth, The white sail, woven strand by strand, \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 22<\/p>\n \u828a\u6986 A thousand leaves quivering yes, yes. \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 24<\/p>\n \u5764\u76ca At the brimming basin why his childhood was cut short.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 26<\/p>\n \u7490\u598d Held for years, the jade as did the paths traced in meditation.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 29<\/p>\n \u53ef Cup and plate get set each evening.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 30<\/p>\n \u840c\u79d1 The smallest leaf calls out to sun and moon. \n <\/p>\n OCTOBER 31<\/p>\n \u7adf\u656c Born into unscored music, \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 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
\nDragon-vigor<\/p>\n
\nthe brittle husks that once held their singing bodies
\nstill hold dearly to the branches
\nwhere they once sang.<\/p>\n
\nHeroic Art<\/p>\n
\nand earth measures his absence.<\/p>\n
\nrise above brittle structures
\nof our failing.<\/p>\n
\nCeremonial Heart<\/p>\n
\nWax fills with the light of its own burning.<\/p>\n
\nButterfly<\/p>\n
\nSomewhere there\u2019s a tree,
\nwhose every leaf dreams of flight.<\/p>\n
\nSpear Point\u2019s Glimmer<\/p>\n
\nso the rest of the body could bathe in light.<\/p>\n
\nEra of the Burning Tree<\/p>\n
\nheroes: someone on fire,
\nbut not consumed by flame.<\/p>\n
\nLasting Justice<\/p>\n
\nthe moon-white heart
\ndrifts beyond the ridgeline.<\/p>\n
\nCloud Zither<\/p>\n
\nresonant across the blue sky.<\/p>\n
\nPillar of Heaven.<\/p>\n
\nweeps in the pool of sound.<\/p>\n
\nConduit of the Universe<\/p>\n
\nthe bobbin turns within.<\/p>\n
\nfills with ash-black wind.<\/p>\n
\nLuxuriant Elm<\/p>\n
\nAnd the boat, dreaming of water,
\ngrows within the tree.<\/p>\n
\nEarth\u2019s Excess<\/p>\n
\nhe asked the earth god
\nwhy her body trembled,<\/p>\n
\nBeautiful as an Open Road<\/p>\n
\ngradually became translucent.
\nClouds dispersed from within the stone,<\/p>\n
\nPossible<\/p>\n
\nSprouting Scholar<\/p>\n
\nIt, too, is a student of light.<\/p>\n
\nUnexpected Honor<\/p>\n
\nthe lute still trembles with autumn leaves.<\/p>\n
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