Love of Arisu* By Shin Dal Ja
Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek
The Quarterly Review: Poetry & Criticism, 2(4), 73. Winter 1999.
The blue sky came down
And spread over the blue skin
Each morning the blue river was born
And echoed its thousand-year lifeIt embraced the setting suns and moons against its bosom
The misfortunes of history filled its body
Arisu! Ah Arisu!
Once again
A blue woman pregnant with a new millennium
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*Arisu: The Han River was called Arisu during the early Three Kingdoms Period in Korea.
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