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1here ure tlmes when blle ls secreted from the heurt. At those tlmes, shoots of
llquld emerge wlndlng wlthln the body. vhen the uths llke the velns of u leuf
collect lnto u bluck streum, u bluck rlver emerges.

1he rlvulets collect ut the cllff und become u wuterfull. 1hey dlvlde the deths of
the heurt und full llke lnk onto muslln.

1he wuterfull ls mude of bluck blle.

Your offense wus ln trylng to tume grlef. Crlef, whlch hus not been tumed once
ln lts entlre llfe, releuses u long, course slgh und luys stlll under the burnt sun.

1hut bluck blle cun collect und dlvlde llfe llke u sword! Under the bluck wuterfull,
everythlng shutters und becomes foum. Cun the decetlve beuuty of drlftlng
thlngs become foum rescue you?

Crlef wlll not be tumed.

8ecuuse your offense wus ln trylng to tume grlef, ut the olnt where
hulluclnutlon ends und destructlon beglns, llfe beglns uguln. 1he bluck blle
collectlng und fulllng lnto u bluck rlver ls beuutlful. l wlll cull thls beuuty the
greutest lle on eurth.

1hut whlch ls the world's greutest lle, the nume of thls beuuty ls unnlhllutlon.


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Cver the reservolr, lce sours.
1he wuter cunnot uccet the mountuln's shudow.
vhenever the wlnd wlldly swees the hull,
over the reservolr, u whlte roud ueurs, dlsueurs.
1o culculute the wound's deth us dee us lce,
he wulked ucross wuter.
1he hund thut fumbled neur the heurt, hulted.

lt couldn't reuch the wuter.
ln the wuter from where l guessed
wus the mlddle, u wound thut wouldn't close suddenly soured.
lrom outslde the wuter, he becume urt of the reservolr.
Ee becume the wuter's surfuce.
lnslde the wuter, hls fuce wlth un unreuduble exresslon wus there.
Ee couldn't go buck lnto the wuter,
he couldn't wulk on the wuter.

At nlght, there ls u reservolr thut releuses crles.
Ee ls on the reservolr.
Cver the reservolr, hls body cools down.
Slowly, he becomes the reservolr.
1he reservolr becomes u urt of hlm.
1he reservolr thut crles when lt's nlght
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A tyhoon ls urouchlng.

vhen l wus ut euce,
vhere wus the wlnd?

A llvlng tree brunch breuks lnto whlte.
1he sycumore tree's broud leuves full vlolently.
ln front of Cuetue 1emle u junler tree hus
fullen, roots und ull.
ln the yurd, roof tlles ure scuttered.

vhut ls the wlnd
und where does lt come from?

Lurge lne trees full vlolently und enter.
Lven the trees thut cun't know whlch wuy the
wlnd ls blowlng corner me.

At these tlmes, u tyhoon ls u tree's ully.
1he trees borrow the tyhoon's strength und try
to lnvude me.

lnslde, l heuve.
lf the souls of those trees enter me,
whut wlll l be?

1he wlnd ls torn lnto leces by my hulr.
8etween my hulrs,
the wlnd rushes,
trylng to flnd the souls of me und the weuk trees.

1he forest ls ulltutlng llke u heurt.


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674 F3D7 -80C3?@ IJ 974 *8:?903?

A mountuln sours from u flsh's buck.
1he flsh wlth u mountuln sourlng from lts buck ls ln u ulntlng. ln the unclent
tomb muruls of Coguryeo, the flsh hud wlngs.

l couldn't see flsh lnslde the ulntlngs of 8uddhu, but to me lt seemed us lf lt
once currled u mountuln on lts buck us lt flouted ln the wuter. Lven lf lts eyes
weren't oen nlght und duy, the welght of slns urlslng from lts buck must not huve
been llght.

lf you go to llsh Sourlng U the Mountuln, cun the truces of flsh thut flew ubout
be seen?
l deluy golng to the mountuln. l see the 8uddhu's rellcs borlng through the flsh's
buck. 1he flsh dlgests the bones und thrusts out u mountuln from lts body.

lt becume u flylng flsh und wundered the world.
vhen lt rulned, ten thousund flsh slushed from the to of the mountuln,
muklng the sound of gold und jude. 1hey were seeklng 1en 1housund Mountuln
und the temle ln the vulley.

Cn the duy u school of ten thousund flsh rulned vlolently down to deuth, when
llstenlng to the mujestlc sectucle the flsh susended ln the sky mude, l robubly
heurd 1en 1housund 1emle's monk from the ust enterlng nlrvunu.

1he flsh lnslde the ulntlng of 8uddhu, llsh Sourlng U the Mountuln, und 1en
1housund 1emle, connect un usldedown trlungle lnslde my urchulc mu.
lts buck beglns to hurt und somewhere south ls overwhelmed by hurd rulns. 1en
1housund 8oulder qulvers und the rulndros hotter thun teurs become fosslls.




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1he tree ute the thunder.
1he tree thut ute the thunder stunds lonely
on the boulder fuclng the hermltuge's shrlne.
1he hermltuge stunds on u cloud.
1he tree thut euts the thunder ls u lne tree.
1hough thunder twlsts the lne tree und strlkes lt,
lnsteud of breuklng,
the tree swullows the thunder.
Llke u knlfe murk ucross u swordsmun's fuce,
obllquely
u scur ls left ucross the lne tree's body.
1he lne tree flercely grls lts scur.
1he scur cun't flee or dlsueur.
1he scur ls bluer.
1he lurynx thut swullowed the llghtnlng
rotrudlng out, thut crooked
lne tree.



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674 M<94C?88? B8C/;

l cut the tomuto gently.
Cne slde of the tomuto's skln ls huddled u,
blue seeds tungled together, stuck to
u red lum.

Cn u dlsh, chunks of tomuto
leun obllquely to one slde.

ln the ufternoon, leuves overturn the wlnd
thls wuy und thut, then set lt urlght.

vhere the knlfe usses, the tomuto ls even.
1he tomuto's red lnnurds flnely dro
downwurd llke leuves.

1he tomuto, lts cold heurt blue und lylng flut,
ls fresh.
lts blue seeds crummed ln lts mouth, lt quletly runs.

vlldly tungled ln the dee green leuves,
the wlnd's ulr bludder swlms
from stem to stem, glltterlng.

1he threudllke whlte blood vessels thut connect
1he tomuto's redblue skln und bones
serenely extend out llke u tree's heurt.

1he leuves ut the tos of the trees bend
us lf ubout to breuk.
1housunds of strunds of wlnd ure overturned
und ull together, flutter.
1he ul choed obllquely und runnlng,
the tomuto beglns to gently rot.

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O? 974 =0C2?4DD

vhere ls the durkness comlng from?
l used to try und eer lnto ull the secret dreums thut the thlngs ln durkness
dreumt.
1he lundscues und sllent belngs thut you end u curesslng
ln the durkness
these memorles thut durkness hus curved ln
leuves burn murks und hus you uncoverlng them for u long tlme.
1he dusk und the long nlght hours engruved lnto my body
lf l just try to druw them out to
the hurmony of llght,

between llght und durk
our unxletles wuver.
1he world thut durkness hus releused ls so bllndlng thut lf
l wunt to reduce thut llght even just u llttle,
suddenly urouchlng my eyes,
u flumescurred 8uddhu's twlsted fuce or
u threestory streetslde ugodu und u reservolr
thut won't reveul ltself.
And whut ubout u erson's lnner world thut reculls llfe
us u burnlng uln? Eow could l not look lnslde lt where
the wuter fulllng echoes loudly llke ln u cuve?
1he llght hus urrlved. 1he dlsueurlng duy.
1he hour thut slowly reveuls the overturned zelkovu tree.
vhen l mlx the durk und llght und curess lt,
the memorles thut swell u wlth my dee breuth.

Rlslng dlffused from my body,
thls durkness encrouchlng ln u brlef moment.



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674 B3?;QD ,097

1he storm ls usslng.
lt stunds vucuntly between the fullen trees ,
unuble to overcome the wlnd.

1he wlnd's uth thut the trees verlfy,
thut thelr urlght roots
wlth thelr llfe comleted only
bend once.

Cut of u deslre to survlve,
the kuok tree thut constructed rulns by growlng over the temle
drlves lts toe lnto the roof
even ufter the temle hus been mude rulns.

1he deslre of the tree selzlng the ugodu
ros u the temle.

Llke Sunskrlt scrlt engruved on broken
stones,
the new rulns whose every door yet unother world
llke u dlstunt hlstorlcul slte, l mumble.

1here ls no true need for
the 1rlltuku loreunu und ,cc llnes
to uwuken from llfe's llluslons.

1he storm hus ussed.
1he leuves on the fullen tree ure wltherlng.
Munch, munch. wlthln the forest,
gouts ure looklng for food.



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1he sound of the wuter ls tull, short, brlght, durk, rlch, llght, dee, shullow, thlck,
thln, course, soft, dense, surse, serene, nolsy, cleur, cozy...
l llke serene und cleur the most.

Lven when seelng the regulur rhythm vury und the reeutlng wuter's chords,
thut ure heurd, thut l heur, thut l wlll robubly see,
l cun't luce those notes one by one on my ulm.

1he flow of my body's cells ls no dlfferent from the rhythms of the cosmos, l
should llsten curefully to my body uguln.
Now beyond the body, l no longer usk myself whut l cun do or whut l cun know.

vhen the sound of wuter wus ut lts brlghtest, my eurs begun to heur.
vhen l reullzed thut sound ulso hus llght, durkness, und shudows,
ut the olnt where llght und durkness cross,

the sound of wuter enters the body's culllurles und shlfts mlnutely to u
dlfferent rhythm und tlmbre.
vhen my luzy onderlngs flnully grus the wuter's chluroscuro...





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At thls tlme flnully someone, not me, flnully flnds unswers to ugeold
hllosohlcul questlons.

At thls tlme, elsewhere, somewhere else, when thunder strlkes und ln the blue
nlght sky, whlte culllurles burst, ruln llke thumb tucks smelllng llke lron fulls to the
ground here.

1he new theory thut the cuuse of thls luce ls elsewhere hus become old wlthln
u duy, und only reference books wlth uccomunylng long footnotes stund ln u
contlnuous row.

Someone glves blrth to un usldedown buby und loses vust quuntltles of blood.
Llsewhere, somewhere else, ut thls tlme hulf ls ln shudows und hulf, on u sunny
duy, meets un uneuceful deuth.

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At thls tlme, not me but someone else moves thelr jolns of cust lron und swuys
whlle dunclng.

1he feellng thut l um belng mude elsewhere, somewhere else...the feellng thut
reference books ubout me ure belng comleted somewhere else...

Slnce the questlon of how cun you understund mun wlthout belng rejudlced
ugulnst the body ls so ugeold,

somewhere else, someone ls tlrelessly.

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1he old house whose umblllcul cord my slster und l hud cut then ubundoned for
twenty yeurs,
lf you wulk u to lt through u foggy mornlng,
weeds und cockleburr grl your clothes, und from
the yurd's entrunce, your unkle gets cuught.

l try to enter the rulns of the custle thut stubbornly reslsts ull efforts.
Cuzlng ut crock ots scuttered on the lutform,
l reullzed the house und l were growlng u
on ooslte sltes.

1o reuch the guest room's doorfrume
where soybeun mult wus hung to get rld of the constunt mustlness,
do l only huve to ull the weeds reuchlng my wulst?

8etween me und the weeds, u uth of less thun un lnch ls u border us dlstunt us u
mountuln runge.
lf l wunt to groe the old house,
l cun touch every corner of my body.

My younger slster ls stundlng wlth
u surrow's leg between her teeth. My younger uncle ls tylng. My grundmother
ls steumlng
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u young umkln. l don't see my uunt.
Neur the crocks u tlger llly blooms. ln the buck yurd, u sundbur rlens to bluck.
l tu, tu untll lt blows u. 1he old house ls crowded for u moment.

1he front yurd's deud erslmmon tree ls lelsurely.
vhen the old house und l urt, l don't know where we wlll ruce.
1he old house wulks ut u cumel's gult towurd tlme.


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A tyhoon usses und u thorn lotus shoots u bud to the surfuce of the wuter
lerclng the flesh of the blg leuves thut ure the body of lts mother
A flower sllts the thorny bud llke u seu urchln us hurd us u kernel
And slowly stlcks out lts bluckurle tongue
1hut extruordlnury roerty of lunts,
Looklng too much llke u flower not to cull lt u flower
8ecuuse l wunt to ull out ull of the thorns of the thorn lotus und look lnslde
l uce buck und forth on the bunk for u long tlme
After extructlng und drlnklng ull of the wlld blood flowlng through the leuf velns
1he flower blooms llke u screum
1he bunk ut the very edge of the mursh ls reurlng to be destroyed gruduully
1he crucklng sound thut no one cun heur
1hey ulone heur
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l slet soundly ut the wuter's edge
lollowlng the course of the wuter the wlllow brunches swuyed gently
And mlgrutlng blrds ussed ubove u furoff fleld
llshy smelllng wuter weeds mude u hlsslng sound us they grew through my hulr
1he wuter lued ut u brldge's columns und swelled to the olnt of overflowlng
lt wus u burnlng drought
ln three deud trees ln front of u shrlne untll srlng wus gone
A slngle blossom of u bluck blrd bloomed
Among the deud trees red flowers srouted ln u flush
l wulked umong them slowly llke u sleewulker
Lreumlng u long dreum
As the lust nlght of the lunur month drew neur
llsh nlbbled ut the yellow moon under the brldge
A flshy wuter smell cume under the deud trees ln front of the shrlne
1hut nlght l slet soundly ut the wuter's edge
Srlng duys huve gone
lt wus u burnlng drought


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