Chance

By Lee Hyang Ji

Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek

Poem Gate. July 19, 2002.


Just then I passed by that place
Just then I was hungry
And just then I met him

As he and I finished eating
And walked on
The place with no roof was widening

The night with no stars fumbled and pushed its way to our sides

While he and I lay holding hands
In the pitch darkness
Thirty-five roses flowered and withered


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