Twilight pale on dripping clock, Dim as dew weighs down the flowers. Only as skies unfold, the Flower in the Leaves . Between river and stream the Roots of Clouds . Yang Chu, simple to share your tears. Ch Y an, hard to recall your spirit.
Waves blow in the evening winds.
Tu Fu is near the Hisang River south of Lake T ung-ting and the Yangtze. The sun in the clouds is the Flower in the Leaves , the Yang energy that will eventually bring the Spring. The sun, the season, the river of the Empire, and the stream of the self, Tu Fu, are all subject to the rhythms of time and the Tao. The sun is a red boulder in the sky and the Roots of Clouds , the red boulders of the Hsiang River, are the shadows of the red morning clouds in the water that were breathed out by the rocks. The red rocks of the present are the clouds of a morning that has passed.