Spring By Ban Chil Hwan
Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek
The Quarterly Review: Poetry & Criticism, 5(2). Summer 2002. (In press).
Look at the skill of that chef.
Who would think those are frozen ingredients?
Those green sprouts
Those flowers ablaze with color
Are also taken out of the fast-frozen refrigerator.
Isn't even the steam given off with a shimmer?
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