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Sun Qian - 白​鲟​挽​歌

from Sal by Paulo Chagas & World Poetry Club

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白鲟挽歌

一道白光，穿越一亿五千万年
以一个恰如自在的旅行
把长江风物移入它自己的虚无
白鲟，为这个死去的寻觅
慢慢向后萎缩、干瘪
变成了一具时间的标本
它剑一般的长吻遍布的电感应，在消失中
很快，攀上了网络传媒的热搜
不亚于我们在遗忘中遭遇的必遇之物

我惊讶于它巨大体躯所释放的隐喻
它从未从“象鱼”的命名中挣脱出来
与陆地的大象、世界的世象和诗象
围绕各自不同的时光之轴
向着同一个时光机器的周围旋转
且毫无抵御能力地
潜行于梦游召唤的景致
就像腊梅正沿着我的时辰开放
但我试着搜集的香味，却被风吹散

一百年之后的今天，也无非如此
这生物种群行列一类的魅力
于人类而言，不在别处
只在它业已消失的行踪，因湮灭
显得愈加靠近，更为清晰
我所不明白的它消隐的所在
是什么在游弋、摆动
因它乌有的叫声，震颤着
在我心灵这儿，引起了尖锐的回应


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Elegy to Chinese paddlefish

Like a flash of white light reflected from 150 million years ago
Once it submerged itself in carefree voyages
Like a collector, it embraced every wave in the Yangtze River, all the images and illusions passing by, frame by frame
The Chinese paddlefish had been chasing them until its death
until its history shrank to the size of a wrinkled peanut
--It was reduced to a specimen, rarely seen and well-preserved
Its paddle-like snout always detect electromagnetic signals from all directions, while we watch it dwindling into the distance
It hit the headline so soon, with its complete absence
Just like anything else that brushed against us and were lost in the currents of oblivion

I was stunned by the metaphor it implied with its immense body
It never sloughed the definition of its nickname “elephant fish”
which had ordained that it would swirl around the axis of evolution
in a weight-carrying way
it resonated within a time machine
Dreams were mirages so irresistible
luring it on in sleepwalking
in the same way that it blew wintersweet flowers into full bloom
I tried to trace its fragrance, but it was lost in the wind so swiftly

A century went by, but things have not changed much
Deadly bewitchment of this species still lingers around
in all the colonies of human
Because its trail, which had long vanished after it like a plume of smoke
now seems to be coming back, closer and clearer
I can not tell what its life in seclusion was like during all the past years
nor can I recognize what was flickering and fluttering before my eyes
Its trembling voice can still be heard from the void
and I hear it echoing sharply inside me.


Lyrics by Sun Qian

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from Sal, released January 22, 2023
Sun Qian - spoken word
Paulo Chagas - piano, flute
João Madeira - doublebass

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