Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain by Li Po
1. Was in an editorial meeting, and they were talking about tenses. Someone said, same as the timeframe of disappointment, and just like that I was paying attention. But not here—all of a sudden I was rifling through the rolodex in
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Li Po
September's just round the corner now, and my dear friend K., lovely girl, suddenly speaks of butterflies and August. Oh, Li Po. What would my life, our lives, have been like without your words? We mere mortals, sometimes poets, our
To Tu Fu From Shantung by Li Po
Copied this on the back of a tissue paper, after crying all day, talking with a friend about what happened. To Tu Fu From Shantung Li Po You ask how I spend my time– I nestle against a treetrunk and listen to autumn winds in