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“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, the image of your return hung before my eyes,so I held out my heart and long arms in distant communicationbut reached only wind beneath wind beneath wind beneath wave.After 10, 000 ri, still the words ‘I…
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“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 bloom. A day like this—the last traces of fading sunset,a chill and dreary wind— I realized quietly that lifeis the lack of life.Love,the overwhelming lack of love. And what of me? Several years agoand today, the…
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“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 Pacific. Violent waveswander the dark and endless shorelinegrasping at some meaning.But what could there be? Like the act of picking upand setting down a phone in your direction.You who can’t so much as remember my name.…