Grass Roots

Contents

xi Introduction
xvii Acknowledgments


Ten-line Poems
?? 3 Listening to the Rain
?? 5 Thinking of a Friend
?? 7 Train Station
?? 9 Drinking Alone
?? 11 Mountain Moon
?? 13 The Fog Falls
?? 15 Forest
?? 17 Grass Roots
?? 19 My Cares
?? 21 Seed
?? 23 Autumn Words
?? 25 Stand
?? 27 Uniform
?? 29 Cold Current

Dialect Poems
??? 33 Dad’s Lunchbox
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???? 35 His Honor, Mr. Assemblyman,
??? Is Not at Home
???? 37 The Village Chief Wants to Build
??? a Bridge
??? 41 Nine to Five



A Miscellany
???? 45 Passing through a Small Station at Night,
?? Listening to the Rain
???? 47 Time Follows
?? 49 Chrysanthemum Sigh
???? 51 The Soil and the Flower
???? 55 Discovering ??
? 59 Chaos
?? 63 Mountain Road

The Four Seasons
?? 69 Beginning of Spring
?? 71 The Rains
?? 73 Waking of Insects
?? 75 Vernal Equinox
?? 77 Tomb Sweeping
?? 79 Grain Rain

?? 83 Beginning of Summer
?? 85 Lesser Fullness of Grain
?? 87 Grain in Ear
?? 89 Summer Solstice
?? 91 Lesser Heat
?? 93 Great Heat

?? 97 Beginning of Autumn
?? 99 The Limit of Heat
?? 101 White Dew
?? 103 Autumn Equinox
?? 105 Cold Dew
?? 107 Hoar Frost

?? 111 Beginning of Winter
?? 113 Lesser Snow
?? 115 Great Snow
?? 117 Winter Solstice
?? 119 Lesser Cold
?? 121 Great Cold