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POETRY
As the Spring Wind Blows
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- onMarch 10, 2016
- Vol.31 Spring 2016
- byMoon Taejun
As the spring wind blows
ripples smile
and as the spring wind blows
from a cave a snake emerges
and as the spring wind blows
the base-stone is loosened
and as the spring wind blows
incurred debts are repaid
new debts made
and as the spring wind blows
ghosts loiter
and as the spring wind blows
starlight moving away
from the world’s two green eyes.
Translated by Sophie Bowman
Author's Profile
Moon Taejun is a program director at the Buddhist Broadcasting System. His writings include Crowded Backyard, Naked Foot, Flatfish, The Growth of a Shadow, and A Faraway Place. He is a recipient of the Dongsuh Literary Award, Nojak Literary Prize, Midang Literary Award, and Sowol Poetry Award. His poetry collection The Growth of a Shadow has been published in English and his poems “My Mother’s Prayer Beads” and “A Faraway Place” were published in The Guardian.
