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<\/a>Detail from the installation of Ai Weiwei: Fault Line<\/em> (2016). Photograph by Ian Boyden.<\/p><\/div> FEBRUARY 1<\/p>\n \u660e\u975c There, where moonlight spills <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 2<\/p>\n \u973d He stood on his head, <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 8<\/p>\n \u5c0f\u68ee Once finished with the trunk, An infinity of black <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 9<\/p>\n \u6046\u5149 A carving of light, <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 11<\/p>\n \u6797\u840c Once lost to centuries of ice, toward the sun and moon, <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 14<\/p>\n \u5a67\u6db5 Ink spilled from where she split the world in two, <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 15<\/p>\n \u857e Your whole life unfolds in the silence after lightning\u2019s flash. <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 18<\/p>\n \u66f8\u665f Once bound, the book what it offered <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 24<\/p>\n \u6770 Every time his name was uttered, <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 25<\/p>\n \u6587\u6df5 Words bubble forth from the deep. <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 28<\/p>\n \u7d2b\u862d The path blocked <\/p>\n FEBRUARY 29<\/p>\n \u57ce\u9716 Earth becoming “Introduction to ‘A Forest of Names'”<\/a><\/p>\n A Forest of Names \u2014 January 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 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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\nMotionless Clarity<\/p>\n
\nacross a handful of ash.<\/p>\n
\nClearing Sky<\/p>\n
\nand to his astonishment
\nwatched the clouds ripening
\nlike fields of grain.<\/p>\n
\nSmall Forest<\/p>\n
\nthe brush dances side to side.<\/p>\n
\nfrom the heart
\nof a burning pine.<\/p>\n
\nFixed Radiance<\/p>\n
\na hewn moon,
\na heart suspended
\nbetween two shores.<\/p>\n
\nForest\u2019s Beginning<\/p>\n
\nthe seeds split stones and called out<\/p>\n
\nand so laced a tapestry
\nof impenetrable shadow.<\/p>\n
\nModest Implication<\/p>\n
\nwrote its fluid song whispering
\nof days filled with love.<\/p>\n
\nUnopened Flower<\/p>\n
\nWhat sprouts from the thunder?<\/p>\n
\nBook of Solar Luminosity<\/p>\n
\ncould never be held,
\ncould never be read,<\/p>\n
\nwas the light
\nof its own transformation.<\/p>\n
\nOutstanding<\/p>\n
\na tree burst into flame.<\/p>\n
\nLiterary Abyss<\/p>\n
\nWhich ones change our hearts?
\nWhich ones collapse a building?<\/p>\n
\nPurple Orchid<\/p>\n
\nby a curtain of flowers,
\neach flower a closed door
\ntwined shut
\nin the figure eight of infinity.<\/p>\n
\nCity of Endless Rain<\/p>\n
\nwalls, stone by brick,
\nto shelter us from forests of rain,
\nand centuries of forests devour the city,
\nits walls, leaf by root,
\nbecoming earth.<\/p>\n
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\nRead more from Ian Boyden’s “A Forest of Names” in the following links:<\/strong><\/p>\n