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By Young-Key Kim-Renaud
I met you suddenly,
Like Destiny,
Dangling high on a majestic tree
Standing by a roadside.
Aloof, yet alluring, you were
Looking down upon the world.
Are you so ripe
Because you’re so near the sun?
Your deeply red body,
Did it become so plump
Because no one’s touched you?
Too high to reach,
You are all the more tempting.
I try you with my closed eyes,
Mouth-watering red peach.
One bite,
My lips touch your soft flesh.
I slurp your sap,
The sweet water wets my throat.
I gulp your luscious body,
Warm tears run down my cheeks.
My peach of immortality.June 22, 2019
Three distinguished Korean poets read from their work.
Young-Key Kim-Renaud has published 14 books, including Creative Women of Korea (2004), And So Flows History (2005), and an English translation of Hahn Moo-Sook’s novel in Korean, Yŏksanŭn hŭrŭnda (1948).
Kwang-Mi Lee’s “The Clock” is featured in The National Library of Poetry. She joined the KLSW as a recipient of the KLSW’s New Writers of the Year Award for her English essay in 2022, and at present serves as chair of its English Writing Subgroup.
Han Hwangbo’s publications include a novel, The Meeting of the Stars (in Korean, 2000) and short stories, “A Fortune in 50 Years,” featured in The Spring of Literature, and “The Nakdong River” and “Going Home,” published in the Korean Literature of Washington, the annual anthology of the KLSW.
Hosted by Grace Cavalieri, Tenth Maryland Poet Laureate, and Kymberly Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of Annapolis Home Magazine. The Conversation Room is located in Mellon Hall near the Mitchell Gallery of Art on the campus of St. John’s College, 60 College Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. Support and funding provided by St. John’s College, Annapolis Home Magazine, the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, and Friends of Poets in the Conversation Room.
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Vol. 16, No. 1 2025