For Someone Far Away by Wang Wei

All year I stay alone in my bedroom
dreaming of Mountain Pass, remembering our separation.
No swallow comes with letters in its claws.
I see only the new moon like the eyebrow of a moth.

translated by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, & Xu Haixin

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