A Scene By Kim Chun Chu
Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek
The Quarterly Review: Poetry & Criticism, 3(2), p. 252. Summer 2000.
When a Buddhist nun with a milky, moon-like face
secretly urinates in a peach orchard
the full moon making a timely pass
looks and looks again at the downy peaches and
the well-ripened buttocks like a gourd and
while she laughs, in the end, her chin drops
and shows her throat, even her uvula
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