Potential Titles: Mei Yao-ch'en

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The dust stirs on the rafters - Mei Yao-ch'en "At Night, Hearing Someone Singing in the House Next Door" transl. by Burton Watson

Out of tune with the times - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

Why aim for the blue sky? - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

Let's be off to the gray sea's border - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

No whip of cracking thunder - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

In a sky made of blue glass - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

The moon like a piece of blackening crystal - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

Make a racket pounding on mirrors - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

Honor in them the spirit that seeks to save - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

Crowds of stars trailing it down the west - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

My lone shadow under the moon - Mei Yao-ch'en "Marrying Again" transl. by Burton Watson

My world too has its sallies and withdrawals - Mei Yao-ch'en "Shih-hou Pointed Out to Me That From Ancient Times There Had Never Been a Poem on the Subject of Lice, and Urged Me to Try Writing One" transl. by Burton Watson


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