“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…
2014
“Sleeping Together” by Lee Kyeong-Rim
I share the bed with a hole.A hole I’ve only just met.Unsure still how deep it goes or how it…
“Marsh” by Lee Kyeong-Rim
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…
“Even Smaller Love Song” by Hwang Dong-Kyu
In part of the lotus ponda single petal plucked from a tree.How fast it falls.Falling, falling, falling still. Laid atop…
“Smaller Love Song” by Hwang Dong-Kyu
Still a fewundying gusts of winds.A damp snow fallingduring the evening meal, or not snowbut snow melted midair and tumbling…
“The Long Arms of ‘I Miss You'” by Moon In-Soo
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,…
“Love is the Lack Thereof” by Ko Un
Was it May? June?Seokkoku stems’ blossoms had flowered. If you walked on,settling waves of white Cow Parsnips would be in…
“Thoughts, a Flock of Crows” by Choi Jeong-Rye
My night to you is midday,and your midday to me as night. Between us lie the breaking wavesof the vast…