As hasty hands fan over toys
I ponder on the past.
Oh, how I hope your childhood joys
will stick around and last!
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Brooklyn Blues
A man in a navy blue polyester suit hurries past the large maple
tree that sits in front of your house; his financial trouble
grows greater with every passing day.
In time, he may have to move out of his
Brooklyn apartment and go live with his son in Trenton.
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*edited after inital posting
First Snow 2014
Daegu, South Korea
a microcosm
dried sweet gum pod
Due to my recent eye surgery, I have been falling back on older work to satisfy the photography updates for Sundry Folly. This image was taken in December 2008 in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Christmas Day. I was walking in my parent’s neighborhood and stopped when I noticed this beautiful and intricate sweet gum pod.
Aubade
7:18 am
a cold wet nose grazes my knuckles
as our leading lady willingly waits in the wings
gowned in glistening gold, she makes a brilliant entrance
Flowers of a Moment: Poem 157
시베리아 혹한만을 말하지 말자
시베리아 폭염 속
썩어버린 잉어가시 하얗게 빛나더라
-고은
Let’s not speak only of Siberia’s bitter cold.
Inside of a Siberian heat wave
bones of rotten carp gleamed white.
-Ko Un
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Unfortunately, I fell behind on my Ko Un translation project this week due to my eye surgey; I hope to finish the book by the end of next week. This is poem 157 from Flowers of a Moment, which is a small volume of poetry by Korean author Ko Un that I am currently translating into English.
Light as Subject/I
sundry folly 