Moonlit River Tanka For Seamus Heaney Poem by Chen-ou Liu

Moonlit River Tanka For Seamus Heaney



Father recited
Li Po's Quiet Night Thought...
I listen
to Heaney's river
in the trees


Note:

For Bernard and Jane McCabe

The riverbed, dried-up, half-full of leaves.

Us, listening to a river in the trees.

Seamus Heaney, 'The Haw Lantern' (1987)

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