Watching A White Falcon Set Loose by Li Po (Li Bei)

High in September’s frontier winds, white
brocade feathers, the Mongol falcon flies

alone, a flake of snow, a hundred miles
some fleeting speck of autumn in its eyes.

translated by David Hinton

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