Part One—Songs from the Little Liang Mountains The Little Liang Mountains Are Little 3 Choices 5 A Village That Won’t Grow Up 7 Lady Peaks 8 Blues That Won’t Blow Away 9 The River That Runs By Me 10 A Flock of Sheep Walk Through a County Town 11 The Year 1958 12 Making My Intentions Clear 13 Sky of Yunnan 14 Cold Blows the Wind 15 Birds in the Snowfield 16 A Poem from the Snowfield 18 Eagle 19 Watching the Sun Falls Down the Mountains 21 The Birchleaf Pear Tree 23 Birds of My Heart 25 Language of the Mountains 26 Wood Ear Mushrooms 29 The Beast Within 30 Conversation About a Dead Man 32 Light 34 Day 36 Wolf 37 Cuckoo 38 A Crow I Once Saw 40 Piccolo 42 Bachelor Town 45 The Sea on Its Back 47 River 48 Sieves 49 Broken Chapters 50 Over Distant Hills 52 Wood 54 Meeting on the Road 55 Saya Temple 57 Magpie 59 Short Songs 60 Snows of Mount Xuebang 61 Three River Gateways 63 No Water Cleaner Than Tears 65 I Do Not Know 67 The Yila Grasslands 68 The Meri Snow Mountains 70 A Potato Story 71 Fresh Flowers Bloom 73 An Ah-ma of the Yi People 75 Nothing Cleaner Than This 77 Holy Sibu-Jiong Mountain 78 Guoliu 80 Lightning Strike 82 Beggar 83 Blacker Than Night 86 Pig’s Trough Becomes a Boat 87 Crops on the Shore of Lake Lugu 89 Person Behind the Clouds 91 Home of the Immortals 93 The Question of the Great Sichuan Earthquake 95 Last Lesson 96 Asphyxiation 97 For Yang Guoqing 98 Ali Mountains — Sun and Moon Lake 100 In One of the World’s High Places 101 I Can’t Even Imagine 105 Angry Sea 106 Crow Pierces the Night 108 Shepherd in the Metropolis 109 Part Two—Loves of Lugu Lake Love Songs from Lake Lugu 113 Walking Through Wedlock 117 Wind at My Side 118 Birthday Gift 120 A Sigh Is Heaved 122 Orchid 124 For Orchid 125 Bodhisattva in My Heart 129 Untitled 130 Snow 131 Lugu Lake 132 Other Kinds of Love 136 Speech 137 Cherry 138 I’ve Missed You Till My Heart’s Emptied All Out 140 Mountains of Joy 141 Long and Short 143 For My Dear Wife 144 Star-draped Moon-studded Woman 146 Missing You from Faraway 148 One Sunflower-lined Road 150 The Only Bone 151 The Horse of My Heart 152 Moon in the Crook of My Arm 153 River with No Name 155 Where from This Peace 156 Listen to the River 157 Some Unspecified Night 158 For a Far-travelling Friend of Mine 160 There’s Someone I’m Missing 161 Petals Bloomed of Leaves — Also Known as Longing 162 I always Was Too Impatient to Wait 163 Snow Peaks Fly Hither 164
