Mellow Marshland

6:30 was not too early for swimming at hoping island
cause they start to charge after 6:00
i shall go there even earlier next time

the sea is calm today, gray blue, i had a good dive
and rested on the searock platform, picking hairy sea weed
till 9:30

i cooked these green hairs as soup, with some egg drops
but my mom and uncle were too conventional to vote for it

沉睡多日，沒一件事是很主動去做的
一切都慢慢的來，效率和我無關，
浮浮的，不把時間當可用的東西

偶兒去和平島的海邊游泳
漸漸知道了漲潮，落潮時的水平線
知道了晨光和夕陽下海水的顏色有什麼差別
風起有時，浪退有時

雲南的maggie 小馬來信說
她將去滇藏邊境的縣城中甸德欽教書
我打算去找她，遠游總是讓我興奮
她說那地方正在雪山腳下，冷的很，記得要多帶點衣服

從泰國到柬普寨，再到越南的西貢
朝北走，沿著鐵道，一路到昆明
轉巴士到中甸 （香格里拉）再往山里去才會到德欽

之后呢？
再說吧

borders are seductive
except for islands, borders
are more to be defined by politics
this time i am going to get across
three borderlines in southeast asia

Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam-China’s Yunnan Province

This morning Maggie told me
she’s going to teach in a remote town
near the Yunnan-Tibet border, a town called “Deqin”,
north of “Zhongdian”, the area of the lengendary “Shangri-la”

yes, i am determined to go
reaching her there in snow mountains
above 6000 meters sea level

and totally escape from
the slow and passive pattern of my life
i have now

time is the matter
better not mind

here we are having another typhoon comming
well, so many typhoon since i come back, made
people believe, typhoons, like most laptops in this world
are made in taiwan

elton just told me he is helplessly in love with a guy again
good that he find a healthier obssession

me, still dealing with those badly written taiwaness propaganda articles
that waiting to be translated, it’s absolutely pain in ass to translate a pile of shit

besides swimming at sea, sleeping is always my salvation,
in my lastest dream this afternoon, i was in a strange city, where
i found a pair of exquisite sunglass, fabulous shape, white round rims
with golden elastic string around… i went back to my secrete appartment
for a rest, the appartment was decorated with dark intricate wall papers
tainted in deep red and purple, in the middle area there is a comfortable round bed
at corners two symmatrical bathrooms bathed in warm lights
two strange lovers of me are waiting with for me in the apartment.
they are quiet as cats, soft and tender, i remember the sense of touch and smell
they gave me, but not their faces, as if that’s the rules of dreamland to keep away one another’s identity
i do see the details of some objects and fascinated by their amazing colors
as for the people, i prefer to leave them in blur

an enchanting chinese instrument
that few learned its magic today
it goes by the ancient notation written at heart

to have a taste how it sounds like, check

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/onlocation/china.shtml
part one of the program

working hard on translation
being troubled with messy spelling systems
that the local government never had the vision to integrate

and to find out the names for typhoon……. gush, which fellow
made so many versions and groups of names for wind and cyclones,
and most of them named after women, doris, sally, maria, matsa, mama mia

http://www.dhjh.tp.edu.tw/thjs/typhoon/ty100/typhon1.htm

pray that they pay me well in time

i am on a very small planet that spins fast
the gravity there is so low that i have to grab on something
otherwise i could be thrown by the turning force into the vastness of outer space

unlike this photo i found, the horizon on that planet is always leaning
the dawn comes and goes quickly with fabulous changing of shades

the views on that fast spinning planet once i mistaken as moon
is fascinating, i can see other floating objects and stars in a looming
short distance

yet the fear of being thrown into the vastness of outer space
still occupies each breath i take

i do breathe on that planet, cause i still feel my chest is going up and down
while watching the exquisite view of universe

there are some fragments of the views from that small fast spinning planet
which i have not yet named

i noticed the rocky surface like that
while i take the risk moving on that planet
no water has been found

soon the enchanting neon trace of another planet enters my view
while my body dashing downward with that planet

almost fall off the frame of this photo
into a dark expanding corner

i haven’t figure out the track of this planet yet
what if it is just a rolling comet without a regular routine?

should i hang over here a bit longer
till i find a name for it and till i
conguor my fear of the vastness of that expanding space