The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
—Li Bai (Li Po) 701–762 (tr. Sam Hamill)
Conversation
You ask why I live
in these green mountains
I smile
can't answer
I am completely at peace
a peach blossom
sails past
on the current
there are worlds
beyond this one.
—Li Bai (Li Po) 701–762 (tr. David Young)