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/