Contents
1: my steps come back and forth on a piece of sponge
A Fairy Tale
First Death
Ten Combs
Rice Container
Rock Holes
A One-Yuan Fairy-Tale Book
Tao Hua and Rooster
Rotten Apple
Cutting Pumpkins
2: my finger and i try to criticize each other
English + Chinese
A Small Finger
The Life Trip of a Plastic Heart
Farm Chicken
Fish Above
Potato
Square Cauldron
Manhattan, a Small Matchbox
Thinking behind Thinking
Pain
Punctuation
Wrong Dance
Niagara Falls in Winter
A Face on the Cafe Window
Spirit of Butterflies in Two Parts
3: how could you leave without saying goodbye
Reciting the Tang Dynasty Poetry
Mr. Shao Kang Ning
Innocent Mother
“Fascist” Aunt
I Wear My Mother’s New Coat
The Father
The Absent Goodbye
Dear Death,
4: brother, can i call you brother
Making Love
Horse Riding
Sunflower Bitch
A Way to Love
Chasing in the Wind
Mountain, River, and Unfinished Flowers
Acknowledgments