李尚朝和我同乡,都是巫山人。对,就是“除却巫山不是云”的那个巫山,也是昔日“朝云暮雨”如今“高峡平湖”的巫山!他生长在大溪,我老家在横石溪,都在长江边,相隔数十里。他先做教师,后当警察,从家乡经万州再上重庆。我一直做教师,也从家乡到重庆。人生轨迹同中有异,没有交集,也未能交往。但他写诗,我在诗歌研究所工作,彼此互相关注。不久前,接到他的电话,然后见面,都是外表朴质、性格内向的同类人,感觉相识好多年。古人早有 Li Shang Zhao and my fellow, are Wushan. Yes, that “Wushan is not the cloud except Wushan”, but also the old days of Wushan, who lived in Daxi, my hometown was in the Stony Brook The Yangtze River, separated by tens of miles. He first do the teacher, then the police, from hometown through Wanzhou and Chongqing. I have been a teacher, but also from home to Chongqing. The same trajectory of life, there is no intersection, but also failed to socialize. But he writes poetry and I work at the Institute of Poetry, paying attention to each other. Not long ago, he received the phone and then met, are appearance of simple, introverted personality, feel acquaintance for many years. The ancients already exist