han shan 

no one knows

how hong he lived

or if he was a poet   or one of many poets

his poems   or their poems

were written on rocks   graffiti 

or spoken to acolytes

to be copied later   perfectly or imperfectly

all in all   an imprecise life

much left to chance

the poetry survives   some of it

i chance to read it

some of it

one of so very many to do so