This poem is taken from PN Review 274, Volume 50 Number 2, November - December 2023.
Three Poems
Yin and Yang
I imagine Li Po’s old lady
haunting him;
coming round corners
in the middle of a lyric,
asking awkward questions,
complaining, condemning,
with him trying this way and that,
losing all affectation, all
cleverness, becoming
simple as a sunrise
letting light fall on high snows,
reflecting upon a cascade between crags
in the middle of Wu mountains,
haunted by moonlight’s watery embrace,
of one mind at last with that old lady.
Leonard and the Darkness
...
I imagine Li Po’s old lady
haunting him;
coming round corners
in the middle of a lyric,
asking awkward questions,
complaining, condemning,
with him trying this way and that,
losing all affectation, all
cleverness, becoming
simple as a sunrise
letting light fall on high snows,
reflecting upon a cascade between crags
in the middle of Wu mountains,
haunted by moonlight’s watery embrace,
of one mind at last with that old lady.
Leonard and the Darkness
...
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