Renaming Komalan Plain（將蘭陽平原改名）

Image drawn by Patrick Lin, my boyfriend, for the poem :)

Renaming Komalan Plain

I saw a space
I wanna build a home.

My greatest, noblest dream
is to build my kingdom
across the Komalan plain.

Then to rename
the Komalan
to HOME-MY-LAND plain.

— Translated from Ji-Lin Zhang (張繼琳)’s Renaming Komalan Plain (將蘭陽平原改名)

*Komalan plain, also know as Yilan Plain, Lanyang Plain, is a beautiful plain in Yilan County, Taiwan.

I worked on the translation last year when I was working with creative writing poetry translation workshop in NTU; the workshop was led by Pangolin House editors George O’Connell and Diana Shi. This piece was not further discussed and rendered by the workshop at the time, so I refined and published it here under my own name.

For works that are collectively discussed, rendered and published, you’re welcome to have a look at the journal Pangolin House.

將蘭陽平原改名 

看到空地
我想蓋房子

看到稻田
我也想蓋房子

我最大夢想
就是在蘭陽平原
蓋滿房子

然後將蘭陽平原
重新命名為 — 
蘭陽屋原

 —選自張繼林《將蘭陽平原改名》