Fan Wu
Hoarfrost & Solace: Variations on Tang Poetry
Sitting across the room from me, DWR asks what I am reading: “Horseshoes and Saddle”?
Fitting.
This is the start of Fan Wu’s third variation on Li Bai’s “Drinking Alone”. It begins simply and grows into a baroque tangle.
Third Bowl
Hyacinth Boy, nude astride the moon in water,
proclaims himself caliph of the unkissed anus,
stroked lewd by an unspent night which, in falling,
darned with stars a virgin body for a boy defiled
by his perfect purity.
And it continues in a tone punch drunk where nothing is stable or in its stable.
Ride on!
And so for day 3002
01.03.2015