{"id":16759,"date":"2008-01-27T23:14:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T06:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/27\/a-morning-with-a-sunrise-li-wei-%e6%9d%8e%e4%bc%9f\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:02:30","slug":"a-morning-with-a-sunrise-li-wei-%e6%9d%8e%e4%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/a-morning-with-a-sunrise-li-wei-%e6%9d%8e%e4%bc%9f\/","title":{"rendered":"A Morning with a Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This early spring I went to work at a private school<br \/>\nThe school is in a remote suburb<br \/>\nEvery morning I have to get up early to take a bus<br \/>\nIt is still dark<br \/>\nStreet lights are sleeping in the slow wind<br \/>\nThe streets seem cleaner than in the daytime<\/p>\n<p>A few elders dressed in very little<br \/>\nAre slowly jogging on the streets<br \/>\nWhite steam rises from their heads and out of their mouths<br \/>\nAs if they are the real masters of the city<br \/>\nIt reminds me that I haven&#8217;t seen a morning for a very long time<br \/>\nI realize what I have been distanced from these days.<\/p>\n<p>On the bus I put on my headphones,<br \/>\nListen to Kitaro and Paul Simon<br \/>\nThe morning light emerges<br \/>\nBuildings and the shadows of trees quickly slide past<br \/>\nThe sun suddenly appears right in front of me<\/p>\n<p>This moment is hard to describe<br \/>\nAs if the volume on my headphones suddenly got very loud<br \/>\nThe instruments and voices bellowing together<br \/>\nThe loudest is the sun in the front<br \/>\nI finally had a morning with a sunrise<br \/>\nThe whole day I will spend with children in the warmth.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banbo.net\/banbo\/temp.php?filename=disfuc\">Li Wei<\/a> is a poet living in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tianjin\">Tianjin<\/a>, translated by CDT.<\/p>\n<p>Photos by <a 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