Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Leaves and Flowers

Invitation

Will you give me your hand in the moonlight,
you are leaves...
Under open sky. Over the yawning precipice.

Like leaves,
you and I.
Trembling in the wind
and quickly gone.
Come...

Tarjei Vesaas, 1953
English translation by Fritz König and Jerry Crisp

齐白石 (Qí Báishí), Sparrow on a banana leaf, 1930. Courtesy of WikiArt.

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