Wednesday, February 14, 2018

HOME

HOME
sung in Manchuria
-- after Yun Dongju

Dragging these old straw sandals
why did I come here
crossing the Tumen River
to this bleak land?

Under the southern sky
lies my warm home
where my mamma waits for me
I miss my old home

--tr. Duane Vorhees

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