Thursday, December 12, 2024

the last cloud drains away

 






The birds have vanished down the sky.

Now the last cloud drains away.



We sit together, the mountain and me,

until only the mountain remains.




 Li Po,
  from Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
 translated by Sam Hamill
 from Crossing the Yellow River: 
Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese



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