Fragrant Styrax

By Yun Yongbin

Translated by Rodney E. Tyson & Hong Eun-Taek

Presented by the poet at the XXII World Congress of Poets, 2002.


At the edge of every mountain valley
There is a mother's smell

The fragrance of womanhood
With the virtue of the earth

Is mistily emitted
From the neat part
In the middle of her hair.


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