AT SHA-CH’IU, FAREWELL TO WEI PA WHO’S LEAVING FOR THE WESTERN CAPITAL

You arrived, a traveler from Ch’ang-an,
and now, returning there, you leave.

Headlong wind carries my thoughts away,
filling trees there in the western capital,

uneasy. There’s no saying how this feels,
or if we’ll ever meet again. I look far

without seeing you— look, and it’s all
mist-gathered mountains opening away.