Jin Zhong (? ?) is the pen name of Jone Guo. He was born in Harbin, China, in 1962. He went to Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1986 as a graduate student majoring in English and American Literature. In 1989, after the Tiananmen Massacre, he went to hide. In 1991, he successfully escaped to the US for political exile. Jin Zhong currently lives in San Diego, California. His works have been published in China, USA, and Europe. He is the translator of Anne Sexton, Brodsky, and Marriane Larsen. He also translates his own poems.
Jin Zhong is also a painter, and healer and therapist.
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Silence has leaves
Silence has ears, it has
A dawn trapped in a square
The streets have no messengers
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The birches open their eyelids
Like a new page of the calendar
The light of life awakens
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The mill of dusk has stopped
The water that remains is all black
No matter what it contains
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Independence Day
Not the roses that fill the shops
Not the bouquets
Dyed red and blue
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