from Spring Gazing (Four Poems) Poem 1 by Xue Tao

Flowers blooom but we can’t share them.
Flowers fall and we can’t share our sadness.
If you need to find when I miss you most:
when the flowers bloom and when they fall.

translated by Tony Barnstone & Chou Ping

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