Stories in poetry

Listening to Rain Beneath a Low Canopy

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Social Life in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 0 reads

The new bridge is finished, and everyone says travel will be easier now. Yet Granny Yao still rolls up her trousers and wades through the water to deliver tofu. Unable to persuade her, Huixing goes to help at her tofu workshop. Even after ruining a bucket of soybeans, he cannot get her to take a single step onto the bridge. Huixing recognizes every character on the stone inscription, but Granny Yao seems to be looking at a blank space. The spring rains are coming, and the villagers plan to pull out the wooden posts at the old ferry landing.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Zhinan’s 《绝句·古木阴中系短篷》 (Quatrain: A Small Canopied Boat Moored Beneath Ancient Trees). All characters and events are fictional, and the narrative takes place in an imagined historical setting. It is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.