Scene
No imagination is needed
A plain house sitting there
For nearly a hundred years
An old lady under the sun
Either in the front or backyard
The tranquility is
No small victory
What else is happier
Bionote
Zhu Xiao Di is the author of Thirty Years in a Red House (memoir), Tales of Judge Dee (novel), Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books (essays in Chinese), and poems at [Alternate Route], Assignment, Blue Unicorn, Eratio, Eunoia Review, MSU Roadrunner Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Crank, and WestWard Quarterly, as well as Heathentide Orphans 2024. He contributes to Father: Famous Writers Celebrate the Bond Between Father and Child (anthology).
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