Shim Jaekwan

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Shim Jaekwan is a Sanskrit scholar and the author of seven books on Buddhism and Indian manuscripts. He lives in Wonju, Korea.

  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Village

    By Ahn Joo Cheol
    Translated By Jeanine Walker & Shim Jaekwan
    The forsythia bush
    bends its fingers to catch the darkness.

    Fingertips like ten small,
    black moons holding eggs.

    If you go into the forsythia bush,
    the heads of rats imprinted with
    cat teeth.

    If  you go further inside the darkness,
    rat legs spit out by the cat,

    tattered legs...