原名聂晶，俄亥俄大学电影系硕士， 现为加州大学戴维斯分校比较文学系博士生。她曾在不少中文杂志和报刊发表过文学评论、散文、诗歌、以及小说等。

Jing Nie, pen name Xi Mei, is a Ph.D student in Comparative Literature Department at University of California, Davis. She got her MA in School of Film at Ohio University. She has published a number of essays, poems, and novels on Chinese magazines and newspapers.

窗外

Outside the Window

水珠
滚下
冰凌

它们——

既是
雪的
后生

又是
雪的
前世

02/21/2005

Drops 
Drop
Down 
The icicle

They are 

The descendants
Of snow

As well as 
The predecessors 
Of snow