Contents Self - Portrait 1 My Reply 5 My Tribesmen Conversing on the Element of Fire 6 The Soliloquy of a Harmonica 7 Contrast 8 A Fighting Bull Growing Old 10 A Fighting Bull on the Brink of Death 13 The Hands of a Mother 15 River Black 17 Headscarf 19 The Old Man Who Makes Harmonica 22 The Song of the Yi People 27 Gratitude to a River 30 To Myself 31 Listening to Requiem 32 Interpretation 33 Bharal in the Gulilada Valley 35 Rhythm of My Tribe 37 Lullaby 39 Sentiments Elusive 42 Rhapsody in Black 44 Rocks 48 Deities in My Homeland 49 Moments in Time 50 Fleeting Fragments 51 In the Mountains 53 Buckwheat 54 The Buried Words 55 The Invisible Man 57 The Sound of Bimo 59 The Horse - Rider 61 The Horse Saddle 62 The First Love 64 The Final Summons 66 Variation on a Fantasy 69 Dedication in an Album 71 A Migrant Tribe 74 Remembrances at Dusk 77 Portrait in Autumn 78 Young Lady at Butuo 80 Remembering the Past 82 A Dedication 84 The Colors That the Yi People See in Their Dreams 86 The Night 89 Fluctuations Invisible 91 Just Because . . . 93 The Sun 95 The Soul’s Abode 96 To a Young Girl in Butuo 97 Untitled 99 A Child’s Prayer 100 Monologue by a Huntsman’s Child 102 An Enduring Pledge 104 A Huntsman’s Trail 105 Yearning for Love 107 The Last Legend 109 Cup Made out of Eagle Claw 111 The Whistle of the River Deer 112 The Statue in the Land 115 Dusk 119 The Lugu Lake 121 The Duluohe Dance 123 Song for Mother 125 To the American Indians 129 Anticipation 132 The Shaluo River 133 Daji Shaluo, My Nativeland 134 If . . . 136 Waiting 138 The Hunting Rifle 140 Farewell to the Daliang Mountain 142 The Hound Sold and Betrayed 145 The Old Man and the Cuckoo 146 The Old Singer 148 An Old Man’s Ballad 150 The Native Hue 152 Suppose 154 The Hidden Head 155 Yellow is Always Beautiful 156 People May Ask . . . 157 I Want to Let You Know 158 Peacefulness 160 A Goat 162 The Stranger 163 To the Enemies of Salvatore Quasimodo 165 The Letter 166 A Day in Autumn 167 A Gypsy 168 Christ and the General 169 The Eyes of Autumn 171 The Words of Welcome from this World 172 The Last Drunkard 173 The Last Reef Rock 174 A Deer Turning Around 176 The Earthen Wall 177 Ode to the Indigenous Peoples 178 The Homeland of Georgia O’Keeffe 181 Looking Back on the 20th Century 183 Remembrances of Youth 188 Gratitude to the Earth 190 In Love with Them 192 Freedom 193 Dedicated to the Year 1987 194 Between Despair and Hope 195 Standing in Awe of Life 197 Dedicated to the Rivers in this World 201 The Little Train in My Memory 204 The Mediterranean Sea 206 The Sun in Rome 207 The South 209 At a Moment Like This 211 The Island 212 Venice of Water and Glass 213 Paying a Visit to Dante 214 Hair 215 The Son of Rivers 217 Untitled 219 However . . . 220 Perhaps I Have Never Forgotten . . . 222 A Dedication to Those 224 Once, I . . . 226 The Discovery of Water and Life 228 Tiwanaku 230 The Mask 232 Motherland 234 The Face 235 Truth 236 Grandma of Roses 237 For I Once had a Dream 239 The Starry Sky Over the Gianaa Holy Marnyi Stones 240 Two Forms of a Poem 247 I’ve Written my Poems in the Space Between Heaven and Earth 251 Mulan 255 The Alpaca 257 The Procedures of Time 258 The Coca of the Indians 259 The Magic Eagle in Condor 260 The Contuta Flower 262 The Fireplace with Dim Flames 264 Identity 267 Flames and Words 269 No Need for Your Forgiveness 271 The Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti 273 Right here Waiting for You 275 Trees in Jilebute 277 Your Breaths 279 A Traveler of the World 282 At the Cemetery 284 Silence 286 The Origins of Poetry 289 The Generation of Our Fathers 292 The Snow Leopard 298 The Divided Self 300 Through the River of Time 302 The Shadow 304 The Day will Surely Come 305 At the Graveyard of César Vallejo 307 To My Mother 309 Interrogation 311 The Immortal Muse 312 To Marina Sweitayawa 314