Two Observations

By X. Z. Shao

 

1

On a wooden

arch bridge,

stands a man

in full moonlight,

facing a lake,

flanked by hills

with breathless trees,

amid birds’chirps.

 

2

A tall trunk

of a dead tree

on which

an egret perched

in the moonlit

lake water,

has been barren,

decaying,

getting smaller

year by year.

     2015/11/23