Smut is Also a Word for Fungus, I Remember

Yi Yŏn-ju “Dusk in Winter”

Life’s end, does anyone
really live beyond it?

Let’s start again.
Power of
filthy
memories.

Collected in Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women Ch’oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hyesoon and Yi Yŏn-ju translated by Don Mee Choi.

And so for day 1236
02.05.2010

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