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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3528 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Between Ridges, Canyons Gary Blankenship (Number eleven in a series of transformations of Wang Wei’s River Wang poems.) A River Transformed XI: After Wang Wei’s Huazi Ridge (2) Between Ridges, Canyons A raptor soars above empty lands, a speck against the clear desert sky, species unidentifiable - empty except for tower, post and pole along distant ridges and the march of house and trailer up ever steeper slopes. The bird, unfettered, dives towards prey only he and turkey buzzards can see. I watch, uncertain of the difference between hawk, falcon and kite. Our lunch sits untouched, the iced tea visited by hornets - or is it wasps? Magpies squabble over the remnants of a dead crow in a broken fire ant nest. The literal translation from a web site: Fly bird go no limit Join mountain again autumn colour Up down Huazi Ridge Melancholy feeling what extreme http://www.chinese-poems.com/ww2.html |
