Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

after Jia Dao and Alan Watts

Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

after Jia Dao and Alan Watts

If you find your way here, leave
the black wasp nest
above the garage door
for another season.

Check the stove's embers
for signs of red. Set
a kettle to boil
to pass the time.

Feel free to leaf 
through this journal,
its remaining pages
white with promise.

The wind plays
with the back door.
The grass betrays
a path up into the hills.

Views of Xiaoxiang by Dong Yuan