Sleep by Yang Wan-li

Only a little high, as if I had drunk no wine at all—
the chilly night seems to last a year.
I woke up at midnight and wrote down a dream
but couldn’t go back to sleep.

Thousands of things rise from the depths of my mind
and appear before my eyes.
The lucid depression is unbearable—
a single wild goose crying in the cold night.

translated by Jonathan Chaves

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