Songs of the Kisaeng: Courtesan Poetry of the Last Korean Dynasty by Hwang Jini et al. - HTML preview

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Chinok

Iron, We Were Told

 

Iron, we were told; iron had arrived again.

Sure, I remembered brittle pig iron,

but your close, cold surface told me iron

again that was hammered and annealed.

This time I will use a furnace of earth, bellows

of such breath you will not withstand the fire.

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