Bonsai of Thoughts: Eighty-Six

1. Even the faintest flower's fragrance
reaches the mountaintop with ease!
At the foothills, a thirsty nose's
two eyes.

2. Between you and me...
the infinite error of between.

3. Before the leafless tree,
arriving,
the wind's salute.

4. At the funeral rites
of the mighty tyrant,
only one majesty remains—the former!

5. Midnight
grows longer
with a few
wounds of rhythm.

6. First rain,
first kiss...
the first is where it stays.

7. Wherever crows
fly and flutter,
there I see
home.

8. Even in moments of captivity,
the desire to be captured
stirs.

9. On the altar of virgin moon,
virginity's
eager sacrifice.

10. Night deepens,
and in the taverns grows
the resurrection of the dead.

11. In the teacup,
southern breeze,
with life alongside.

12. In the red light of candles
each life
searches for its black hole...

13. Girl, instead of jasmine
in your hair,
tuck me in.

14. Into this room
she enters.

The moment I reach to touch,
she runs away.

15. Thread in needle,
hair in comb;
petal upon petal,
stem to stem.

16. In the light of day,
in the lotus fair,
in the play of light.

17. In autumn's moon,
caught in whiteness's snare,
women weep.

18. In dense summer,
on war's frontier,
in an open cart.

19. The boy counts
stars.
Father counts
fireflies.

20. In the storm's surge
roses fly,
sheltering in shade.