“A Single Name” by Lee Je-Ni
I stand waiting on a frozen page,the waters of memory flowing up with the determination of iceuntil an unspoken name…
I stand waiting on a frozen page,the waters of memory flowing up with the determination of iceuntil an unspoken name…
I share the bed with a hole.A hole I’ve only just met.Unsure still how deep it goes or how it…
60,000 years before my mother gives birth to me,35,000 years before I give birth to my daughter,my daughter’s womb holds…
In part of the lotus ponda single petal plucked from a tree.How fast it falls.Falling, falling, falling still. Laid atop…
Still a fewundying gusts of winds.A damp snow fallingduring the evening meal, or not snowbut snow melted midair and tumbling…
They say you’re walking the banks of a river in that country.Your small shoulders glisten like a butterfly.Though I only glimpsed from behind,…
Was it May? June?Seokkoku stems’ blossoms had flowered. If you walked on,settling waves of white Cow Parsnips would be in…
My night to you is midday,and your midday to me as night. Between us lie the breaking wavesof the vast…