Beauty Only
by Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean
Taking a walk
I saw
a wildflower.
Not knowing its name
I saw
its beauty only.
산보하다
한 송이 들꽃을
보았네
이름을 모르기에
그 고움만
보았네.
From “Like a Leaping Carp,” Tricycle, Spring 2004. See also “This Kind of Unknowing” and “Were I a Flower.”