Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart,
Bridge of Birds is a fantasy novel by Barry Hughart, first published in 1984. It is the first of three novels in The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Oxseries. The original draft of Bridge of Birds is included in a special slipcased version of the omnibus collection, The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, released by Subterranean Press in 2008
Among the flowers, with a flask of wine,
I drink all alone-no one to share.
Raising my flask, I welcome the moon,
And my shadow joins us, making a threesome.
As I sing, the moon seems to sway back and forth;
As I dance, my shadow goes flopping about.
As long as we're sober, we'll enjoy one another,
And when we get drunk, we'll go our own ways.
Thus we'll pursue our own avatars,
And we'll all meet again in the River of Staaaaaaars!