American Idyll

yes, the river knows

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

A World Apart That Is Not Among Men




You ask me
why I dwell
in the
green mountains.

I smile
and make no reply,
for my heart
is free of care.

As the peach-blossom
flows downstream
and is gone
into the unknown,
I have
a world apart
that is
not among men.

--Li Po (701--762)

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