Zheng Xiaoqiong has been a migrant worker in Guangdong Province since 2001. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Shikan, Shanhua, and Renmin Wenxue,among many others. She has won multiple literary awards and attended poetry festivals all over the world. Her poems have been translated into a dozen other languages.
I settle my body and soul down in this small town
Its lychee orchards, its streets
A little deck in the assembly line
The rain wets my head, again and again
I rest my ideals, love, dreams, and yo...
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We maintain antiquity and elegance on paper;
inside we are full of shame. We
present heaven and hell on paper;
our self-disgust resul...