Boudoir Feelings by Li Shang-yin

Red dew on floral chamber, white honeycomb–
Yellow bee and purple butterfly, both in disarray,
At spring’s casement, awakened from a dream of love:
They share the same bed, and do not know it.

translated by Eugene Eoyang & Irving Y. Lo

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