Jul 2019
I see what I am
& what I was
in the surging hazel
mirror of your eye.
The dragon looks
into the froth
of the waterfall
& remembers
the carp that
spent a hundred
years leaping.
& what I was
in the surging hazel
mirror of your eye.
The dragon looks
into the froth
of the waterfall
& remembers
the carp that
spent a hundred
years leaping.
Based on the Japanese folklore that a carp climbed to the top of a waterfall and became a dragon.
