Friday, May 20, 2011

A poem for Kim ki-duk's Spring,Summer, Fall,Winter...and Spring












A stone tied to

The doors with demon stars

Open on the waters

Time freezes and unfreezes

The boats coming and going

Until there is walking on the waters

A stone tied to

A calmed violence with moving letters

Curved and uncurved

A vigil on the water

For both man and his son

How many grief cycles

The stone tied to?

Fire on the water and the little child

Weeping at the edge of the cavern

Mother died there

Faceless

Stone tied too

One does not show faces in these waters

There are letters on

Letters perspiring and crumbling

And yet persisting in circles

Will anything ever come to pass here?

The body folds inside

The gaze atop the hill

At long last

Fixes the landscape in one

One day the demon doors will crumble on the boat

A stone tied to...

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