Flower Unlike Flower by Po Chü-yi

A flower, and yet not a flower
Of mist, and yet not of mist
At midnight she comes
And at daybreak, leaves.
She comes like a spring dream, for how long?
She goes like morning dew, without a trace.

translated by Eugene Eoyang

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