Written unrhymed for the Chinese

無韻體奉聲學家羅杰瑞

historical phonologist Jerry Lee Norman

木棉花在高溫裏開落，概念留

In the heat, red cotton tree blossoms

枝頭，預知一爻如箭將對準不忍的

open and fall. Ghost flowers

空白疾行，超越形器，象數，和所有

linger in the boughs, hinting at the yao,

風雨聲類：虎豹的蹤跡，獨角獸的影

an arrow racing toward emptiness,

一隻鷓鴣從紅槿小木間狹邪穿刺

beyond all sounds, shapes, the forms

迎面看見水影照女牆，遂鼓其短翅低飛

of wind, rain, tracks of tigers,

瀲灎轉平上去入，過河，升高

leopards, shadows of mythic beasts.

在前上方，與期待的天色和絃

A partridge skims a hibiscus,

sees a parapet mirrored in a river,

soars high, dips low,

crosses water, then towers,

merging with the color of the sky.