ANOTHER JOURNEY
Another journey. The southern provinces,
Pennsylvania. I think also of you
in your wandering exile. What are
the differences? Perhaps only
the speed of change. A swallow here
zooms across the pond, becoming
a winter jay on the farther shore.
Snow whirls in the pass, torrential
rain drenches the cabbage fields,
the palace grounds are enshrouded
with mist. Old age and final illness
come with the swiftness of the Yangtze
flooding in springtime, or like
the quick unreeling cinematograph.
Hayden Carruth
A Summer with Tu Fu
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
Poems 1991-1995
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