Thursday, July 10, 2008

To One Unnamed - Li Shangyin

You said you would come, but you did not, and you left me with no other trace than the moonlight on your tower at the fifth watch bell. I cry for you forever gone, I cannot waken yet. I try to read your hurried note, I find the ink too pale. Blue burns your candle in its kingfisher-feather lantern and a sweet breath steals from your hibiscus-broidered curtain. But far beyond my reach is the Enchanted Mountain, and you are on the other side, ten thousand peaks away. - Li Shangyin, To One Unnamed Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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