Tian
The poem's title "天天" is evidently reduplicative. This much the English reader who knows no Chinese can observe. The poet plays with this — the explanation is proceed by the image of drawing a lake to save a jumping girl — the drawn lake is built of words and so is she...
[...]天
bending to drink
this street like a river.
In Chinese, 天 means both
heaven & sky.
From a distance, a body
falling is nearing
[...]
Past Lives, Future Bodies
K Ming Chang
天
And so for day 2422
31.07.2013
