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	April 10, 2012 Celebrating our Sweet 16 this month, Poets.org looks back at 16 years online. Learn more > Today's poem is from Notes on the Mosquito, published by New Directions. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Read more about this book. Related Poems A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Thought of the Nile by Leigh Hunt Afton Water by Robert Burns In Passing by Stanley Plumly Man in Stream by Rosanna Warren You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org		The Other Side of the River by Xi Chuan translated by Lucas Klein On the other side of the river there is a flame a flame burning May burning August when the pagoda tree blooms, the professor with lentigo bows to her when orange blossoms fall, an heir of graceful demeanor waves to her and smiles yet on the other side of the river she remains, still burning like the underwater glistening of red coral like a red straw hat blown away in the breeze when I saw her yesterday she was totally still, looking to the sky and today she lowers her head to watch the river if it were overcast and raining, what would she do there on that side of the river? —her flame would not go out a poet looks to her a farmer looks to her a Dialectical Materialist looks to her she is on the other side of the river, burning burning May burning August Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend

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