出生于中国湖南。90年代移民美国，毕业于加州州立大学电脑系。曾有诗歌、散文发表于报刊。现居加州洛杉矶。

Ying Yun was born in Hunan, China. She immigrated to USA in 1990s and graduated from California State University. She has published some poems and essays on newspapers. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

卖樱桃的人

The Cherry Peddler

我的苦恼有些杞人忧天：
即便今天买下你手中所有的樱桃
也不能结束你日复一日
烈日下的贩卖
那是你的生活：
白色日光榨干你所有的忧伤
每一颗脱手的樱桃
是枯竭土地上的一颗汗珠
丰收只是个没有结局的神话
			

My worries sound groundless:
I can buy all the cherries in your hands
But I cannot end your peddling
In the burning sun day after day

That’s your life:
The white sun has extracted all your sadness
Every sold cherry is a drop of sweat
Falling onto the drought-biting land
Harvest, a fairy tale without end
			

桥上的女人

A Woman on the Bridge

                           
落在你伞上的
是六月下午六时的炫日
落山前最后一次喷吐
还有疲倦了一日的噪音
与川流不息的习以为常

你站在没有风景的桥上
往日落的方向观望
也就是十里外的海
海早已消失，消失在黄昏
不能坠地的尘嚣
			

What’s falling on your umbrella
is the blazing sunlight
At six p.m. in June, noise 
Tired from the day, and
Familiarity that never ends 

Standing on a bridge without landscape
you look at the sunset in which way
A sea is ten miles away
which has vanished
into the dust that cannot fall at dusk
			

蓝色玫瑰

Blue Rose

                           
画布上一片广袤的蓝，越过那色彩
一朵玫瑰缓然舒展，悠远着
轻波飘渺的歌声 

花心的静谧揪住了我 --- 

是什么藏于歌声中？
又前往何处？ 

暗自猜询，那四溢的祥和
与欢乐都不能释然我怀 
循着歌声，我见到---
静静深藏的火焰 

玫瑰的灵魂？

这生中我们谁不曾渴望，燃烧
而后平息在殆尽的
静寂里？ 

谁又不是凝神倾听
花开瞬间才悄悄
绽放的秘密？
			

A boundless blue on a canvas; beyond its color
A rose slowly stretching, spreading
A soft song

The stillness in the flower heart seizes me--

What’s hiding in the song?
And where is it going?

I ask myself privately; even that overflowing peace
And joy cannot relieve my from thinking
Tracing along the song, I see--

Lowly-burning and deeply-hiding fire

The spirit of a rose?

Through our life 
Who has never dreamed of burning
And quietening down
In the silence of ashes?

Who has never held breath to listen 
To the secrets of a flower
At the moment of its opening?