Friday 17 September 2010

From two more Chinese Poems (in the mountains)





"We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains."

Li Po, tr. Sam Hamill

"This year turning sixty-four, elements
About to dissolve within me- the Path!
...No need
To shave my head again, or wash.
Just set the firewood flaming- that's enough."

Nangaku, Gentai, tr. Lucien Stryk



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