Chloe Yue Zhou, a poet currently lives in Shanghai. She is a Zhuang which is a minority in southern part of China. By being effected with Zhuang culture, Chinese traditional & western poets, her poetic style and contents diverse and cross-cultural.

Chloe Yue Zhou

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I come from

(After Kao Nhia Kue)

I come from
Táng Bo, southern lands unknown
From bronze skins stained by soils
From antiphonal singing among fields
From blood succeeded in corn porridge
From stories started with throwing silk balls

I come from
Sky lifted among soaring mountains
From arts inheriting in cloths
From named after ancestors' legends
From faith in sweats rather than tears
From waists bent by reasons of love