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

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Sin




There’s

a tiny bow;

my body is its favored arrow rack.

Arrows whir in random flight; impossible to hide.


One day I devised a stratagem;

I drew a target on my breast.

I waited.


Every arrow in air

either pierced the eye or stuck in my back;

none surceased my life.