Father recited <br />Li Po's Quiet Night Thought... <br />I listen <br />to Heaney's river <br />in the trees <br /> <br /> <br />Note: <br /> <br />For Bernard and Jane McCabe <br /> <br />The riverbed, dried-up, half-full of leaves. <br /> <br />Us, listening to a river in the trees. <br /> <br />Seamus Heaney, 'The Haw Lantern' (1987)<br /><br />Chenou Liu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/moonlit-river-tanka-for-seamus-heaney/
