Mirrored Minds: A Thousand Years of Korean Verse​ by 9788993360486 - HTML preview

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Kite




I pull on the string; it rises.

It sinks when I give it slack.


The line snaps.

The kite flies away

into the sky -


Emptiness in the hands,

emptiness in the heart;


cold in the back,

weak in the body -


The unreal is too heavy to carry.