Glue

                        he boiling down cattle hooves 
              she a fruit concoction to make a brittle

glue for furniture

         fruit

 fresh gathered

        he she

 in entanglement

      soup pots

 home made wine

      ice cream

         quiet

looking back towards

                       memories 

   herds moving over the plain

outliers roped in

    family matters

  more than before

       friends too

   after so many years

           peace




copyright © 
Dick Russell, 2014

                       Remorse

                                      by Wang Chang-Ling

too young

for sorrow

she powdered her face

like dancing bees

bringing pollen back to the hive

on this fine spring day

from her balcony

she sees green buds on twigs

birds mating

all these omens swell

her heart with regret

she sent her husband

to war

to seek fame

translated by David Sen

interpreted by Dick Russell

copyright © Dick Russell 2014

an earlier version published in

Chapman Chinese Issue

1972, Chapman, Editor: Walter Perrie