故紙自述

此卷自廢紙箱裏撿出，揉皺中複展再視，筆纖性滿，如對舊我，故未棄之。

回想若無昔日之纖，何來今日之厚。人生之旅，熟與未熟也。

雖有今是而昨非之歎，亦不離根本也。

2025年夏月甄選舊作隨筆

Rediscovered Pages

I found this volume in a wastepaper box,
its creased sheets smoothed with care—
each stroke still delicate, alive,
as if meeting my former self.

I couldn’t bring myself to burn it.

Had there been no such tenderness then,
how could this depth exist today?
A life’s journey—
ripeness and rawness intertwined.

Though I sigh at yesterday’s follies,
they remain roots, unsevered.

—Selected old drafts, Summer 2025