Farmers
Towering trees shade a brushwood gate,
emerald moss dappled with falling light.
They hoe lotus, a mountain moon rising,
and then, searching thin mist for a trail,
the old man leads a child, eyes following
their starveling ox taking its calf home.
And for dinner, back home in lamplight,
they savour white garlic pan-fried in dew.
Mei Yao-ch’en (1002-1060)
translated by David Hinton
- Mountain view
- Balance
- Checks and balances
- Barred
- Standing guard
- Village shop
- Shop keeper
- Pagoda builders
- Pond with pagoda
- Pond with path
- Threshing
- Woodstack
- Drying out
- Gate
- Washing
- Windows
- Washing with ducks
- Drying
- Waiting
- Burning
- Fruit
- Biker gang