Yellow Birds
After Yuri of Goguryeo
In yellow sunlight on the golden road
I stand alone.
All, all are mine—rice fields and golden road,
All but the one thing I desire.
In a tree by the road two yellow birds are mating.
Why must they sing so gaily?
--Translated by Joan Grigsby
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
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