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Geliao Street
Yuan Xin
trans. Wang Ping
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1690445/geliao-street
Geliao Street
Twenty-six years ago, I biked past the west side of Xilituzhao, Then again, thirteen years later, at the Lantern Festival. My family moved here from the middle kingdom twenty-six years ago, Rented one of the nine rooms here. The Year of the Ox and its spring surrounded my past On the merchant…