Keynote
One of China’s most significant contemporary poets, cotranslated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
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Upon the magnificent extravagance of my beloved stilettos,
I want the world back. I’ve been alive—could it be?—
Near a century. My face has closed up shop.
My feet are a desolate country.
For a single woman, youth is a feast that lasts
Only until it is gone.
You didn’t come to live with me.
—from “A Single Woman’s Bedroom”