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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Waterfall at Taroko (poem)

  
Emerging where the rivers were
I leave the valley under me,

clouds and lungs together now,
filling alike in freedom,

fingers and twigs alike
touching wind.

Where I am the mountain is:
one standing.

Left and right the dark rocks:
one stone.

Water falling clear between:
one light,

one ray open above,
through to beneath.

Where are the trees?
here where I am,

standing with me in one,
one in the wideness of wind.

--Lloyd Haft