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“It’s OK, I’m a Pig” by Kim Hye-Soon
Nailing the pig to the cross was so natural it was meaningless. In the meditation room, I glare at the wall while deciding to meditate and sit in the Lotus Position…
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“Lunar Eclipse” by Wi Seon-Hwan
Extending a finger, my uncle raises it to one eye. Squeezing both eyes as he headed to the reservoir, he held a drenched full moon in his water-filled stomach…
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“Cuckoo” by Seo Jeong-Ju
Dappled with tears was the path my love tread. 30,000 ri to the lands west of China, he played his flute as he left for where azalea rains fall. Ga Op-Shin, adjusting and readjusting…
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“Bird” by Shin Dal-Ja
For you, I was a bird. Unable to speak, only cry. A pitiful bird with no one to understand me. And each day, to make my wings ache I flew to all the places you traveled…
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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.…
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“A Prayer for Poetics” by Park Hyeon-Soo
Grant usa speech that neverneeds to spread vocal cords.Let us stand in the worldwith the eyes of a village windarriving unfamiliar each day.Let poetrynot develop as intendedand the spore of imaginationfilled with life drift freely.I trustthat reminiscing is the evidence of old age.Let not the inanimatebring the past to mind,and as larvae eat away their youthlet…
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“River” by Hwang In-Sook
Don’t open up to me about how lonely you are, how burdened you are, how much you want to go crazy, how sane you are, about the bugs in your heart
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“Small Love Song” by Hwang Dong-Kyu
I received a letter which held yesterday.The path that had always trailed behind yousuddenly disappeared,and everything that wasn’t the path went with it.Scattered stoneswhich played with us as kidshide away their faces.I love you, I love you…and in the cold, clear night skyI see the steady cracking of gold.A thin snow falls.Unable to settle anywhere on the ground,a pair of…