Cui Yuwei #31--"White Lotus Temple"

Cui Yuwei #31--"White Lotus Temple"

White Lotus Temple

Written and self-translated into Chinese

It begins with

a spark. The wind knows,

slipping through the square-shaped mouth

in dark-grey of a brick furnace.

It’s breathing. Flying up.

Bursting into shapeless flames.

There are people, their eyes

telling a sterile apathy, not going with

their obsessive hands to put

the gifts in. They are murmuring

an ambiguous prayer, to the hopping spirit to

morph piles of four-cornered paper sheets,

Which take the form of American dollar,

Hong Kong dollar and Chinese Yuan,

into ashes. They turn around and walk away afterwards.

《白蓮寺》

最初

壹顆火星。風吹進

灰色磚爐的四方大口

它呼吸，跳躍

盛開烈焰

人群麻木的眼

跟不上投放禮物時那雙

機械的手掌

含糊不清地禱告

等跳動的火

將印製成美元，港幣和人民幣

的紙錢

化成灰後

轉身離去