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For P'ei Ti

by Wang Wei

Wang Wei

We've not seen each other
for a long time now.
Each day above the stream
I see us arm in arm.
Memory. Painful goodbyes.
If it feels like this now,
What did it feel like then?




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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top

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