9/9, Thinking of My Brothers East of the Mountains

Each year on this auspicious day, alone and foreign
here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen:

far away, I can almost see you reaching the summit,
dogwood berries woven into sashes, short one person.

                                                                                                (Note)

Wang Wei
Translated by David Hinton
The Selected Poems of Wang Wei
New Directions

Copyright © 2006 by David Hinton.
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