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Sunday, May 17, 2015

A New Wang Wei Translation


Surely you can say,
having come from my village,
if the winter plum
has already blossomed there
by the filigreed window.


You may have noticed that it's odd that this is in the Japanese tanka form--what with Wang Wei being Chinese.  I suppose it's because I didn't sit down to work on it, but just stumbled on a memory of this poem in my reverie while taking a shower.

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