Cheoseo* By Heo Hyung Man
Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek
The Quarterly Review: Poetry & Criticism, 3(1), 225-226. Spring 2000.
A winged insect flies low low
In a brief instant it's cloudy
A pine tree halfway up the mountain
Is imprisoned in a black cloud
Fluttering, the sound of
The birds of the earth flying up all at once
Began to accompany the strong windMore than the days I've lived
The days I'll live have become much shorter
All of heaven's living things
Are hurrying back to the earth
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*Cheoseo: One of the 24 seasonal divisions which occurs around the end of August.
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