Juli Min is the Editor in Chief of The Shanghai Literary Review. TSLR is a biannual print magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translation, and its editors split time between New York and Shanghai. TSLR accepts submissions year-round and hosts a monthly open mic night in Shanghai. For more information about events and submissions, please visit www.shanghailiterary.com
Min also co-founded the Jululu Independent Book Festival and is a Lecturer of writing at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Her work has been published in Hazlitt, Real Life, SCMP, & Storychord.
Pictograph
outside the window a man paints
grey stone tiles with water with
the end of a long brush
each square a house for a letter
pictograph,
on tiles further away
already drying, strokes, shrinking
turning into dots
the cafe is warm the sun
the yellowed gingko
leaves shaking below
JingAn temple, gilded
I, slow,
expanding around me,
bookshelves, books, magazines
becoming dots
he walks with a small limp
across the street
the thicket of gingko, French plane
leaves in the autumn
gilded like the eaves
of the temple after
a while
a light rain falls