ascending a tower in Xianyang prefecture watching the rain
upheaval of clouds rising like beasts above the mountains:
drizzle & wind & Wei River running full & high
sunlight’s spent, the sky misty, nothing can be distinguished;
only wild geese in V formation flying: script endlessly linked
Jack Hayes
© 2015
based on Wei Zhuang: 登咸陽縣樓望雨
dēng xiányáng xiàn lóu wàng yŭ
Image links to its source on Wiki Commons
Unreconstructed Terracotta Army soldiers: by Wiki user Ovedc , who makes it available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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