A Scholar Instructs a Goose |
by Richard K. Kent
On an anonymous Chinese photograph, ca. 1930s
At the garden's end, the long-robed scholar, fingers raised, is forever instructing the goose,
which looks back with willful, beady eye. The old man knows it's useless but still he goes
on trying. How else? For all these years the two of them paired like this.
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