It Was Clear

By Kim Young Tak

Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek

The Quarterly Review: Poetry & Criticism, 4(2), p. 205. Summer 2001.

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A bird making the sound po-reu-reung came out of a chimney

A wren

The wren flew away

To among the branches of a winter tree

And chirped beneath the weight of silence

The tree, too, shivered

The bird

Hopped into the tree

Only one winter tree remained

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