Stay For The Night Poem by Jone Guo

Night. In the lamplight
A tiger is crouching
Speechless

The Pacific overflows with darkness
It’s like the edge of the world

The city, a record
From the pinnacle of a church
Slowly, unfolds its starry light
And those stories of farewells
Ups and downs
The tune of a flute
Brings here some distant rumblings
From the dim mountains

Those musical notes: her eyes, lips, hands

Water
cascades down
Like wide glass walls all around

God, with sadness
Lives




Jin Zhong 1993