Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Ahn Do-hyun/Republic of Korea

Diary


In the morning, I cut the scrawny, overgrown eyebrows of chrysanthemum flowers with scissors.

In the afternoon, I wrote and mailed off a postcard to the stag beetle that visited the edge of the porch last summer.

I also asked the doctor who came to mend the broken persimmon tree to repair its shade, too.

I counted seventy-three wild geese filing into the edge of the roof, then stopped counting.

The evening penetrated into the kitchen, but I turned down the light

and ate from a couple of kinds of cup.

Even so, what can be more important than this?



[The 1st Asian Literature Festival 2017]

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