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Han Shan - Encounters with Cold Mountain Translated by Peter Stambler - I DIG MY HEELS IN TIGHTER AND RIDE PAST
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Encounters with Cold Mountain - Poems by Han Shan
Translated by Peter Stambler
Beijing, Panda Books, Chinese Literature Press, 1996
I DIG MY HEELS IN TIGHTER AND RIDE PAST
The heart that moves the traveler
Is the heart wounded by ruins:
The dusty courtyard, the lintel fallen
At the chamber door, a broken grave,
A shadow scurrying beneath the tumbleweed,
Wind brazen in the unpruned trees,
The bones of daily men -- these I mourn --
Unrecorded, unread, unmentioned anywhere.