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)
Chenou Liu
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/moonlit-river-tanka-for-seamus-heaney/
