Tonight we went to the lighted boat parade at the First Annual Alanson Riverfest. Got little videos for YouTube, but with the darkness and the motion of the boats, no good stills.
This is a poem I wrote after one by Tu Fu:
NIGHT JOURNEY
after Tu Fu
shore grasses
breeze-bending
strong, brittle mast
a single boat going downstream
stars close enough to pluck
open, unpeopled plains
the mirrored moon leaps from one ripple to another
it won't be caught in the great river's flow
my name
will it remain written on the scroll
when the work I have done
must be given over?
floating, floating reflections
what is real, what is illusion?
one sand gull
floats between heaven and sky
June Hopper Hymas
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