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June
Wind says into my ear: June.June is a blacklistI just missed.
Be cautious of the ways we say goodbye,of the sighs inside words.
Be cautious of words’ annotations:plastic flowersspread out on the left bank of death.The paved square that extendsfrom the action of writing
to this very momentwhen I am trying to escapefrom writing,as dawn is hammeredlike a flag onto the surface of the sea
and a loudspeaker, faithful tothe sea’s deep bass, announces: June
1996.6 [End Page 161]
Bei Dao was born in Beijing and is one of the major poets of the Misty School in China. In exile from 1989 to 2006, he moved to Hong Kong in 2007. His books in translation include The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems (2010), Unlock (2000), and At the Sky’s Edge: Poems 1991–1996 (1996). He was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
