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| Great Salt Lake at sunset, photo from Antelope Island State Park. |
Lu Tung-Pin is
gone beyond
his spirit suns
a thousand other worlds
merit, fame, and grass and mustard seed
the same
the old guy took his bramble staff
and smashed up all
distinctions.
no tricks
nothing doing
sun and moon endure their rush
and don't grow old
sail backwards?
row against the flow?
to hell with that.
you'd better be known
for being
quiet.
clear water-sound
fine mountain colors
nothing to do
with right and wrong
bamboo's shade on a
rush hut's window
here's music
in a way
you cannot say
to any man
- Yun K'an Tzu, Yuan Dynasty
