MAKING MY WAY TOWARD YEH-LANG IN EXILE, I REMEMBER WALKING AMONG PEACH BLOSSOMS LONG AGO AT AUTUMN RIVER

Peaches in blossom, spring waters high,
white stones appear, then sink away,

and rustling wisteria branches sway,
a half moon drifting azure heaven.

Who knows how many fiddleheads wait,
clenched along paths I once walked?

In three years, back from Yeh-lang,
I’ll resolve my bones into gold there.