SO YOU ' VE SEEN THE SEA

so you’ve seen the sea

you’ve imagined

the sea

you’ve imagined the sea

and then seen it

just like this

so now you’ve seen the sea

and imagined it as well

but you’re not

a sailor

just like this

so you’ve imagined the sea

you’ve seen the sea

perhaps you even like the sea

just like this, and nothing more

so you’ve seen the sea

and you’ve imagined the sea

you’re not willing

to be drowned by the sea

just like this

just like everybody else

(Tr. by Maghiel van Crevel)

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Han Dong （1961- ）, a native of Nanjing, the representative poet of the “them”poetry group in the 1980s, published several books of poetry including "White Stone", "Dad Watching Me in the Sky" and so on.He was the chief editor of“them”poetry journal.

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