Monday, November 23, 2009

Revisiting Po Chü-i



YEN-TZU TOWER

Brilliant moonlight filling windows, frost filling blinds,
a lamp's last light flickers across the bed, the cold quilt.

A night of moonlit frost on Yen-Tzu tower: autumn's come,
but now I'm living just enough old age for one man alone.


(translated by David Hinton)

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