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highlandparkpoetry：Autumn Grapes by Bing Hua
highlandparkpoetry：
Autumn Grapes by Bing Hua
Translation by Yingcai Xu
https://www.highlandparkpoetry.org/blank-3/
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
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