Hongri Yuan’s most recent poem to appear here was “Heavenly Temples and Towers” (December 2019).

Fragrant and Amaranthine for Thousands of Years
By Hongri Yuan

One day I will return from outer space
on a red cloud and bring a giant picture scroll.
My lines of lightning songs will flutter gold greetings from a prehistoric giant city
The mountains that have been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years
will become transparent
and the lights will be brilliant, like five-coloured gems
And the songs of my soul will blossom from me
like the fairyland flowers of the Kingdom of Heaven,
that remain fragrant and amaranthine for millennia