The Hanok Fields
there's another country buried here in the ground under all this snow - i can see it in the rice field rows how the white flakes make them look like the flat plane of hanok rooves & as if some long-departed designer (maybe even king sejong) had seen it just this way & thought (in all of this order i smell yin & yang merge white moon above the dim bird below the empty furrows coated like tiles & here i will make my sweeping arcs their exponential gentleness (earth a dragon emerges every springtime to pounce upon their ancestors' burial mounds (but for now they too remain cloaked in snow - like turtle shells awaiting another frozen invasion ... there's another country buried here in the ground under all this snow - i see it in the perfect hanok fields another place for my mind to grow