there you stand
always
at the edge
of my thoughts
Month: March 2016
the light goes out
the light
goes out
and with it
the flame
in my heart
Fishermen by Sowol Kim
What bliss it is to be blind to life’s futility.
Today as usual from the far-off village
a fishing boat has set out to sea, I hear–
how fearful were the waves billowing last year!
transalated by Jaihiun Kim & Ronald B. Hatch
from The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
The hell with the truth. The history of the world proves the truth has no bearing on anything.
I Did Not Know Before by Sowol Kim
I did not know before
that the moon rises every night.
I did not know before
that I would miss you so much.
I did not know before
how to watch the brightest moon.
I did not know before
how the moon would be my sorrow.
translated by Jaihiun Kim & Ronald B. Hatch
Cloud by Sowol Kim
If I could make a stallion
of the crimson cloud that sails
darkened in the night,
I would fly nine thousand leagues
to be held in your arms
while you lie asleep.
But this I cannot do.
When you hear the rain fall,
take it for my tears
that I shed every night.
translated by Jaihiun Kim & Ronald B. Hatch
Optimism by Sowol Kim
I must take comfort,
take life as it comes
the way the wind whines in the trees
stripped of flowers and foliage.
translated by Jaihiun Kim & Ronald B. Hatch
from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart beating. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
Raymond Carver on writing
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
words get you
in the end
words get you
if you are
one
who lives
in the head
Leonard Durso 