Today, Another Day of Life By Lee Young Choon
Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek
The Quarterly Review: Poetry & Criticism, 5(2). Summer 2002. (In press).
Water in a kettle is boiling over on the stove
I desperately press down and press down
The lid of the boiling kettle
Grains of barley in the kettle
Spring out with their ruddy eyes straining
They jump outIn the midst of this winter
One aluminum pot thrown out into a vacant lot
Comes running to me jumping up and down
The brazier where my grandmother used to bake potatoes
The fireplace where my mother used to crack chestnuts for me
I miss those things anewOn the stove as before, in the kettle as before
My lives are boiling restlessly
From far behind me someone, someone
Repeatedly calls out
To put down the kettle lid and leave
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