A Covered Well By Lee Hyang Ji
Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek
Poem Gate. June 5, 2001.
My pain is over there
A sky blue wooden lid presses on itWearing high heels covering my insteps and dark blue slacks
I try to open the pain below the lidBetween
The pain going near and the pain coming near
The footsteps
That I hearBetween
The force pressing down and the force lifting up
Stench and darkness
Flow outThe well below the lid was rotting
My pain below the lid
I put it exactly in the proper place where I live after death
And go up the stone steps following the scent of kaoliang flowers
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