Gu Cheng

I am currently reading Nameless Flowers, a book of poetry by Gu Cheng.
Here is a poem from the book:

Love Me, Ocean

I have no gills.
I can't go to sea.
         - Alberti

love me, Ocean
I quietly say
come to the mountains

in the curved troughs of waves
there are only questions
water drops for an instant
magnify the setting sun

love me, Ocean

my shadow
is twisted
I'm hemmed in by the land
sound paves over
the glacial scars
only my gaze
freely reaches
the sky
to find your breath
the wind, an expanse of pale blue

love me, Ocean

the blue gets deeper as
deep as dreams
without edges
without rusting shorelines

love me, Ocean

though the stream's call awakes me
the treetops keep recalling
your song
everything returns to
the most beautiful moment
shining scales, rainbows
on butterfly wings
autumn leaves drifting into sighs
green canes and blind snakes
calmly enwrap me

love me, Ocean

who's that walking in the distance?
it is the pendulum
hired by Death
to measure out life

love me, Ocean

the city's
countless stubborn shapes
try to tame me
with metallic coldness
laughter and scorn
bland thoughts
turn bitter
salt crystalizes
in black hair and pupils
but --

love me, Ocean

wrinkles, roots' footprints
knit a net
to ensnare me
where is the mark of the wave's kiss?

love me, Ocean
a coarse bit of gravel
murmuring in the mountains

http://www.amazon.com/Nameless-Flowers-Selected-Poems-Cheng/dp/080761548X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1296542138&sr=1-1