Where Time Bends And Leaps In Ukraine Poem by William He

Where Time Bends and Leaps in Ukraine
By William He

A dome of glass, twisted and scarred,
Down falls a storm of shattered shards,
Cold rays fade, their light withdraws.
A lone child stumbles in the air,
Vast wilds stretch, his trail is lost,
He is beating back.
He watches broken panes weep,
The river winds in reverse,
The laws of time bend and leap.
Thorns shroud the night's deep folds,
Whispering to brittle boughs,
Grasping nothing of the weight.
Frost blades turn, slow and grim,
Through shifting coats of soldiers,
Ivan peers past rifts in the clouds.

Street clocks mourn,
As bronze crumbles to rust.
Fingers clutch the Julian mark,
The sun devours the hour whole.
How could this land be cast,
The kid waits by the sky-steeds,
Calls on which soul.
A blind colt leaps,
Through steel thorns.
Hooves stir the rising dust,
And dust whirls in frantic flight,
Spirits spiral through the ruin's waste.
Yet Kiev's heart,
Drowned beneath the dim moon's light.
Could not reach,
The fourfold veils of time,
Where the old town lies buried.

六丑 乌克兰倒悬的天空
作者：何威廉

恰玻穹扭曲，
堕万霰、
寒芒都息。
稚儿‌踽踽，
荒原遥托迹，
荡作回翼。
见废窗凝噎，
河流颠倒，
调转沧桑律。
荆榛夜壑荒阡陌，
浅语枯桠，
千辛难识。
霜锋转头沉抑，
看戎衣影绰，
伊万云隙。

长街钟泣，
渐熔铜锈蚀。
指上悬儒略，
吞日刻。
怎堪铸此疆域，
算宣来天驷，
唤谁魂魄。
盲驹跃、
钢筋丛棘。
蹄踏处、
但卷尘烟骤起，
鬼旋墟侧。
偏基辅、
月色昏黜。
照不到、
四度时空里，
瘗埋旧邑。