Autumn Dream by Tu Mu

Frosty skies open empty depths of wind.
Moonlight floods fulling-stones clarities.

As the dream ends, I am dying at night:
I am beside a beautiful woman, thoughts

deepening–a leaf trees shed in the dark,
a lone goose leaving borderlands behind.

Then I’m in travel clothes, setting out,
heart and mind all distances beyond sky.

translated by David Hinton

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