from Seeing Off the Mountain Monk Ch’u, Returning to Japan by Chia Tao

While absent from home,
your hair’s turned white;
but at wave’s end
blue hills will arise.

Separated  by water,
we’ll be in each other’s thoughts;
but no letters
to distract your quiet life.

translated by Mike O’Connor

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