海子：

原名查海生（1964年3月26日－1989年3月26日），生于安徽省怀宁县高河查湾，在农村长大。1979年15岁时考入北京大学法律系，大学期间开始诗歌创作。1983年自北大毕业后分配至北京中国政法大学哲学教研室工作。1989年3月26日（他生日这一天）在山海关卧轨自杀，年仅25岁。在诗人短暂的生命里，他保持了一颗圣洁的心。他曾长期不被世人理解，但他是中国70年代新文学史中一位全力冲击文学与生命极限的诗人。

其主要作品有：《土地》、《海子、骆一禾作品集》、《海子的诗》、《海子诗全编》等。另有诗剧《太阳七部书》，诗剧《断头篇》，诗剧《但是水，水》，长诗《土地篇》，第一合唱剧《弥赛亚》，仪式和祭祀剧《弑》，诗体小说《你是父亲的好女儿》等。

HAI ZI (1964-1989)

To 1986

‘like two fierce monks firing the land of wild chrysanthemums – this is how my heart is this year’

(or the only skulls remaining when horses drowned in the lake of emeralds) the infinite terror in a horse’s brain! that infinite terror of water and fruit!

‘(as I crane my neck and go wandering all around)
your lips are like rainbow clouds moving deep into an orchard (while in my brain remains the terror in horses’ heads
that terror of lips and fruit)’

‘(this clear, cool well-water of mine
washing my feet like washing two weapons of war
(skeletons of swans fly in from far and far away
graveyard horns sing for someone blustering on a swan’s body)’

[BH, LMK, WNH]

Dedicated to Dark Night

(For The Daughters of Dark Night)

from the land dark night rises

dark night blocks the shining sky

 the land laid waste after harvest

 from inside of you dark night rises

you came from far away, where I go


on this long long journey, which passes here

the sky has nothing to its name


why does that comfort me so?

the land laid waste after harvest


they’ve taken away the year’s yield


they’ve taken the crop away, ridden away the horses

 people left in the ground, buried deep

pitchforks gleam, straw is piled on the fire


rice grain heaped in the dark barn
the barn

 is too dark, too still, too much has been gathered,

too much laid waste: I saw Death’s eyes in that harvest

birds like black drops of rain


flock from dusk into dark night

dark night has nothing to its name

why does that comfort me so?

walking along the way


singing full-throatedly


the gale sweeps across the ridge

above is the edgeless sky

[BH, LMK, WNH]