Nation shattered,
mountains and rivers stay;
The city is in spring, deep
in trees and weeds.
Lamenting the times,
flowers shed tears;
Regretting the parting,
birds cry in bleak heart.
Three months long
warming-fires burn on
towers;
A letter from home is worth
ten thousand gold.
The white hair thins from
fingering;
There’s hardly enough to hold a hairpin.

»Spring View«, 757 (High Tang Period) China, by Tu Fu. Found on Nobelprize.no, an internet site-specific project conceived and curated by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman.

»Double Happiness«, 2006 by Brian Reed.