DPF / Chu-I

For hills and landscspes, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.

from Madly Singing in the Mountains / by Po Chu-I (772-846), translated by Arthur Waley

Ever since I was banished to Hsun – yang
Half my time I have lived among the hills.

DPF / Kassia

This bird’s from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, ed. by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefeand, and Kathleen Weaver. That’s two birds in one. 🙂

from Selected Epigrams / by Kassia, trans. by Patrick Diehl

A nun’s life — free as a bird.