[updated September 2022]
Huang Fuyue at Yunxi: Five Poems: No. 3
皇 甫 岳 云 溪 杂 题： 五 首
鸬 鹚 堰
乍 向 红 莲 没
复 出 清 浦 扬。
独 立 何 褵 褷
衔 鱼 古 查 上。
Huang Fu Yue Yun Xi Za Ti: Wu Shou
Lu Ci Yan
Zha xiang hong lian mei
Fu chu qing pu yang.
Du li he li shi
Xian yu gu cha shang.
Huang Fuyue at Yunxi: Five Poems: No. 3
Cormorant Levees
At first they disappear under the red lotus
To emerge again at the clear water’s edge flying upward.
Independently with wet feathers stuck together
Holding a fish in its mouth, perched upon a wood stump.