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Han Chu, Written for Ko Yah Ch'ing

My lord, you live beside the river
In a painted palace
And I live at the corner of the sea.
My tears fall in the sea
And the tide carries them
Before your tower
Where they stop in the flowing water.

translator Kenneth Rexroth
from Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems (New York: New Directions, 1991), p. 59.
(this volume is a combination of two earlier New Directions collections by Kenneth Rexroth: New Poems (1974) and The Morning Star (1979)

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