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“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 the waterby this hand. 연못 한 모통이나무에서 막 벗어난 꽃잎 하나얼마나 빨리 달려가는지.달려가다 달려가다 금시 떨어지는지. 꽃잎을 물 위에 놓아주는이 손. Hwang Dong-Kyu (1939—) earned his undergraduate and graduate degree from Seoul National University in…
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“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 endlesslyas drops of water. Drops which,when you open your hand, are drawn from one breezeto another to brush against your body. 아직 멎지 않은몇 편(篇)의 바람.저녁 한끼에 내리는젖은 눈, 혹은 채 내리지 않고공중에서 녹아 한없이 달려오는물방울,…
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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…