Leaving the City by Wang An-shih: a poem with more resonance for me today

zdunno03's avatarLeonard Durso

I’ve lived in the country long enough to know its many joys.
I was starting to feel like a child back in my old village again,

and suddenly, leaving the city today, I leave all that dust behind:
turning to mountains and valleys, I feel them enter my eyes.

translated by David Hinton

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