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

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Maehwa

My Thoughts of Him

 

My thoughts of him are muscle and bone,

for he loved me with no flesh to spare.

One moment’s longing for another touch

of him cuts through my belly.

How then shall I live

through these days after days?

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