HUANG E

To the tune “The Fall of a Little Wild Goose”

You held my lotus blossom
n your lips and played with the
pistil. We took one piece of
magic rhinoceros horn
and could not sleep all night long.
All night the cock’s gorgeous crest
stood erect. All night the bee
clung trembling to the flower
stamens. Oh my sweet perfumed
jewel! I will allow only
my lord to possess my sacred
Lotus pond, and every night
you can make blossom in me
flowers of fire.