The light retires to the lamp
and suddenly all is dark again
who out there has caught the night-moth
and instructs it in shadow?
After countless drills
the torn-winged moth
no longer knows how to fly
and trails through the twilight
crawling snail-slow
toward the light.
Date: 2018
By: Yao Feng (Yao Jingming) (1958- )
Translated by: Julia Sanches (19??- )
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