Duane Vorhees writes

On the Mountaintop

    after Yun dongju

 

I've come to the mountaintop

and the streets look like a baduk board

and the river slithers like a baby snake.

At this time of day

people spaced like baduk stones.

Half-day sun rests on a zinc roof

and the maggot-paced train

pauses at the station

barfs its black smoke

and begins to move.

Wondering whether this crumpled sky

will completely cover the streets

I’d like to go to a higher place.

[Baduk is the Korean name for the Japanese game Go]