How to Be From Here | 从此该如何

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How to Be From Here
After Southern California & Ally Ang
by Joy Yin
i.
Learn to bike before you can
speak, let the pavement kiss your soft
knees raw, till the land finally claims you as
its own. Call the sun your sister, your
white friend who spits white lies, who
burns you tan, ready to judge how
a body should curve. Carry sunscreen
around like armor, like a wall. Be
fluent in nothing but drought, say
“home” & mean the freeway, leading
deeper into this country distant. Sing
your grandma your ocean songs, when
she is already pixelated, almost translucent.
ii.
May the girls on every sun-baked street learn the
language their bodies already speak. & may
every bruise become a symbol, proof of survival.
Even if your skin is foreign on top of
foreign, covered with a coat of normal.
iii.
& perhaps one day, the sprinklers buried
in the bushes will heal you all on their own.
Still, let it burn, let it bloom.
Joy Yin is a writer and poet. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in Apprentice Writer, Milk Candy Review, Bending Genres, and more. Joy is also the founder and EIC of Lacuna Vox, a youth literary magazine.

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从此该如何
致南加州与Ally Ang
翻译：诗验室
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在学会说话以前学会
骑自行车，让路面亲吻你柔软
的膝直至破裂，直到大地最终将你
拥入怀中。称呼太阳为姐妹，你那
口吐善意谎言、将你晒成古铜色
并随时准备对她人身材指手画脚的
白人朋友。将防晒霜
如盔甲或一面墙那样随身携带。语言
久旱至荒，口中说着
“家”却想表达高速公路，通往
这个遥远国度的深处。为
外婆唱你的海洋之歌，在她
早已像素化、几近透明的面容前。
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但愿在每条烈日晒过的街头的女孩都学会
自己身体已经懂得的语言。& 但愿
每块淤青都变成一个符号，生存的证据。
即便你的皮肤属于外来
之外，被一件标准的外衣覆盖。
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& 或许有一天，埋于灌木丛中的
洒水器将会只手治愈你。
且任其燃烧，随它盛开吧。
尹沛心是一位诗人。其作品散见于「Apprentice Writer」「 Milk Candy Review」及「Bending Genres」等处。她还是青年文学期刊「Lacuna Vox」的创始人兼主编。