Ancient Myths and Otherworlds · Kuafu Chases the Sun

Kuafu Beneath the Setting Sun

The sun hangs low against the ridge, and Kuafu’s shadow stretches across bare ground. A grove of peach trees grows where his staff has fallen.

After the Sun

A figure runs toward the red sun beyond the ridge, a peach grove at the end of his shadow.

The sun keeps its distance. Peach trees take root.

Blossoms hang from the staff above a figure almost lost among its roots.

Trees grow at an angle from the foot of the staff, beside the sun’s dark shadow.