Sunday, 22 October 2023

#1391 - Hunan misty

 


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Hunan misty

an auspicion         

ekphrastic for Dong Qichang’s ‘Landscape after the Rain’

 

 

the king, in his dream

meets with a goddess

 

clouds cannot be seen in cloud

a kingdom dissolves to mist

 

and the king goes on

in time’s absence

 

you cannot see

the rivercraft, fish

the day indoors

 

the frog is less than seen

 

under leaf, the ant trails on

gravity notwithstanding

 

how is there light?

and how long

 

you cannot see the way through the wood

 

rain fallen, falling, rain to fall

 

a picture has its mountain

a mountain hides its trees in trees

 

clear heaven over

a clean sky now

enchantments

 

song of the bird understood to another

 

all these treasures of the unknown

 

the king is what?

loves, lives lost here

 

it’s how the world leans where we are

when we are out of time











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