Mandelstam.

Han, Yan

Mandelstam

 A man on fire
 Broke into whose time?
 Please accept my smoky greeting

 You cough into tears?
 Oh, I engulf the air
 Engulf the intimate distance between us
 No one loves strangeness in the blood more than me

 When truth secretes venom in darkness,
 My people, let me test the sword of the executioner
 I already heard the rhythm of the gold,
 The bud of the century in the universe's placenta
 Suddenly wake up

 Stone--rush to the stature
 "This terrifying acceleration"
 Never try to separate me from it
 "This poor element"
 People will talk about me many centuries later

 Please listen to this incidental sound
 Please listen to this pacifying sound--
 "no Pure Land ..."