Summer Retreat

A L O H A !

" In my first thirty years of life

I roamed hundreds and thousands of miles.

 

Walked by rivers through deep green grass

Entered cities of boiling red dust.

Tried drugs, but couldn't make Immortal;

Read books and wrote poems on history.

Today I'm back at Cold Mountain:

I'll sleep by the creek and purify my ears. "

Han Shan,

Translated by Gary Snyder

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What kind of life is this,

Living in the vacation land

of Waikiki?

I look at the world

of important affairs

and it is just as happy

without me.

And so, like Han Shan,

I live in retirement.

Except that my words

are not secrets

but broadcast

widely

and wonder 

of wonders!

YOU

arrive!

          Thank YOU, cloudia