highlandparkpoetry：Autumn Grapes by Bing Hua

highlandparkpoetry：

Autumn Grapes by Bing Hua

Translation by Yingcai Xu

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Autumn Grapes

by Bing Hua
Translation by Yingcai Xu

Your autumn
Is vibrant with a bumper harvest
Your autumn
Is permeated with fruit fragrance over the streets

Can hardly reap your harvest
Or enter your streets

My autumn
Is lonely
I
Water and fertilize it all alone
I
Have stumbled into it

After autumn officially arrives
I collect bunches and bunches of purple-red grapes
And taste them
None has your flavor

Those tearful and sweaty grapes
Are not at all sour
They are instead fragrant, succulent, and crystalline
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Previously published in Quill & Parchment, October 2023