A rare Saturday post

I hope you enjoy it

An fine Autumn leaf from this mornings walk

When other plants bow to the frost

chrysanthemums alone show their beauty

this is the nature of things

there's no changing the seasons

I sprinkle their pedals in homemade wine

at sunset I sit down with farmers

under thatched eaves all of us drunk

life is about more than plenty

Poem from Wei Ying-wu written in the fall of 780 at Shanfu Temple.

From In Such Hard Times translated by Red Pine.