The following five-character regulated verse, one of two entitled Twelfth Month, Sixth Day,²⁸ was written by Yuan Hao-wen while under house arrest in Liao-chʻeng. The empire still full of arms, At this edge of the world, the year again renewed. The dragon has shifted, leaving fish and turtles lost; The sun eclipsed, unicorns are fighting. Brambles amid grasses, these desolate hills are snowy; In my old garden, mist and flowers mark the spring. Here in Liao-chʻeng, a moon out tonight, I feel disconsolate still away from home.

We're gonna have practice tomorrow morning for an assembly we're giving on Thursday before school lets out for Easter.

with disordinate gestures

That gangrene in the register of ill / From which men shrink with undisguised disgust, / According to the sternness of their hearts, / And from which women turn recoilingly […]