In The Time Of Covid News

Picture submitted by Benjamin Houser

By Anqi Liu

 

I was lying on the couch

enjoying the last warmth in late autumn

Original author: Hu Xudong

Translated by Willy Du

 

—To Ah Zi

 

Several days ago, like two idle supervisors,

By Masaki Mori

 

Our current, perpetual nemesis

Wields invisibility and silence

To take the disposable body

And shrivel the mind dry

Depriving our voice of the last breath