Bonsai of Thoughts: Ninety-Three

1. A small life,
yet how much sorrow it holds!
For the useless man
even more sorrow.

2. Our home,
the stars' home—
both are darkness.

Only the stars shine.

3. Where I was,
there I alone was,
not you.

4. Stars fall
having scattered their light!

5. A cat's dream
reaches only
to fishbones.

6. Comma:
the friendship between
river and tributary.

7. Semicolon:
of two wild ducks
one dips its beak,
searching for snails.

8. Ellipsis:
a grieving dahuk
weeps, beating its wings.

9. Asterisk:
a dove enters
the line of herons.

10. Comma:
a bowed feather
rises and falls with the waves.

11. Exclamation mark:
gripping the railing
a sparrow leaps.

12. Colon:
how morning dew
burns in sunlight.

13. Question mark:
the length of silence
in a vagabond's conversation.

14. One desire only—
I don't want sympathy,
just let my worth
win through.

15. Even if you bury
these two eyes
deep beneath the world's skin,
from there vision will begin.

16. Silence—God's word.
Darkness—God's light.
Tears—God's signal.

17. Rain, flowers, ocean, wind...
draw maps of darkness.
Then I sit down and open
this world's songbook.

18. Running and running
weeping and weeping
finally, spring.

19. Between two trees
the moment that got caught—
there lies the sea.

20. Very briefly, the girl:
what she sees and what is true,
the relationship between these two, the entire
combined being of all whys and why-nots.