Passing Ch’en’s Trail by Yang Wan-li

Once, passing Ch’en’s Trail in a boat,
I raised my head to listen to the wind in the pines.
Now, a year later, I am standing in that wind
looking down at the boats traveling east and west.

translated by Jonathan Chaves

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