Chinese Cities, Around Chinese Cities Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Chinese cities,
From Beijing to Shanghai to Tianjin
To Chengdu to Hangzhou
To Chongqing
To Xian, Nanjing
To Wuhan, Shenzhen
To Guangzhou to Suzhou,
Where to go in China?
Qingdao or Harbin or Dalian
Or Shenyang or Changsha?
Kunming or Zhengzhou,
Where to say you?
To Xiamen, Shijiazhuang, Jinan,
Wuxi, Hefei, Ningbo
Or Dongguan, Gillian,
Taiyuan, Haikou or somewhere?

In China,
Around the Chinese cities
Travelling,
Travelling and listening to,
Listening Mandarin,
Cantonese
But the sounds passing,
Passing through
And I aghast to make out,
Make out any meaning,
What did they,
What not
Remembering
Fa-Hien,
Hiuen Tsang?