The poems in this collection are located between a lost world and today’s modernity, poised between celebration and lamentation, as icons of loss and yearning. The reader is carried into unfamiliar spaces of scenery and also of language, as the translators retain echoes of the Korean originals, intent on transmitting each poet’s vision of an unfamiliar other place to readers who are eager to be transported.
- Brother Anthony, literary translator and professor emeritus of Sokang University

A Word from the Poet 10
2H2+O2=2 H2O 12
The Autobiography of a Flower: The Cockscomb 16
A Sunset by the Sea 20
A Morning Glory 22
Everyone is a Prisoner: I am Still in an Apple Seed 24
The Ladder 27
I Long for People 28
Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers 32
The Sound of Rain 36
Salvador Dali’s Watch 38
Time Walks Out the Gate with Its Hat Pulled Down 42
Wind Chimes 46
Wildflower 48
Middle Age 50
I Want to Run 56
Beneath the Flowers of the Wisteria Vine 58
Flute 60
Critical Acclaim 64

시인의 말 11
2H2+O2=2 H2O 14
꽃의 자서전 - 맨드라미 18
일몰의 바다에서 21
나팔꽃 22
누구든 포로다 -나는 아직 사과씨 속에 있다 25
사다리 27
사람이 그립다 31
사랑은 꽃몸살 35
빗소리 36
살바도르 달리의 시계 41
모자를 눌러 쓴 시간이 대문 밖으로 걸어나간다 44
풍경 47
야생화 49
중년 54
달리고 싶다 57
등나무 꽃 넝쿨 아래서 59
피리 63
작품해설 68