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Sunday, January 15, 2012

furtive states...




raincloud suddenly rents the embroidered walls...
the feast over, emptiness asserts itself once more... 
souls dissolved in the dream seek each other without end... 
 

[selected lines from 'To the air of "Mulan Hua"' by Li Yu, the last emperor of the Southern Tang dynasty]