Old now, tangled by Wang An-shih

Old now, tangled  in human form, I’m done trusting wisdom.
Knowledge in ruins, I’ll follow farmland elders, live out my

hundred years like a child. What else could carry me clear
through, heal all these failures hacking and scarring my face?

translated by David Hinton

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