Kirin

Flame flicked through bamboo groves.
Light breaks on jade peaks.
A shard of bark without inscription
rests under bamboo flowers
that contains the universe,
and everything outside of it.
No tracks line the ground,
no burn marks the leaves.

~~~

Gibbons howl. Lamp light sinks. Wakefulness tangles
with tea smoke, drifts into moth laden airs. Cedar forests

spring from pregnant emptiness. Past emerald
sentinels bounds a dull colourless flame yet nothing

burns. The kettle whistles, the door shudders.
Since your last visit, a thousand-year tiger roar still echoes.

~~~

First image found here: http://www.likenaruto.com/reference-materials-creating-naruto/

Second image found here: http://www.lair2000.net/Unicorn_Dreams/Types_of_Unicorns/Chinese/Chinese_Unicorn.html

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