| Preface | 13 |
| Introduction | 15 |
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| Sunrise | 30 |
| Leaf Struck by Bird Droppings | 31 |
| What Did You Do Yesterday? | 32 |
| The March of Dawn | 34 |
| Achromatic Dawn | 35 |
| Reply at an Unknown Place | 36 |
| Ringing in My Ears | 38 |
| The Phoenix | 39 |
| Leaving Home | 40 |
| The Joy of Love | 41 |
| Song of a Balloon in Search of Her Mom's Balloon | 42 |
| The Sea | 43 |
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| Dream | 45 |
| Windy Day | 46 |
| Black Hole | 47 |
| Autumn Letter | 48 |
| Rooftop Violin | 49 |
| A Country Where Snow Has Not Yet Fallen | 50 |
| Nature | 51 |
| Nursery | 52 |
| Yard | 53 |
| Ap'ae Island I-Diving Woman | 54 |
| Ap'ae Island 45-Once Upon a Time | 55 |
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| Entering Chikso Fall | 57 |
| Millet Field in my Mind | 58 |
| One Day | 59 |
| Thoughts on a Bird | 60 |
| Mountain Stroll | 61 |
| At Moments Like This, I Always Blush | 63 |
| Crescent Moon | 64 |
| Every Morning in the Mirror | 65 |
| To Single Women | 66 |
| Black Cove | 67 |
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| Rotation I | 69 |
| Leaves of Grass | 70 |
| Becoming Water | 71 |
| Woods | 72 |
| In the Fog | 73 |
| Sleet | 74 |
| Rise, Grass | 75 |
| Spider | 76 |
| Twilight Song | 77 |
| Woman Hanging Laundry | 78 |
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| The Storm | 80 |
| The Stare | 81 |
| A Little Kitchen Song | 82 |
| Seeing the Snow | 83 |
| The Letter | 84 |
| To My Son | 85 |
| Song of a Middle-Aged Woman | 86 |
| A Single Blossom | 87 |
| For the Sake of Man | 87 |
| For the Sake of Man Again | 88 |
| An Elderly Woman | 90 |
| To You, My Beloved Ssuma Ch'ien | 91 |
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| At the Grave | 93 |
| Anam Street 1 | 94 |
| Anam Street 2 | 95 |
| Korean Women | 96 |
| Oh, Life | 97 |
| Chirping | 98 |
| Song | 99 |
| Certain Sickness, Deep Love | 100 |
| Time 5 | 101 |
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| Our Baby Is a Living Prayer | 103 |
| Prague Spring 6 | 105 |
| Prague Spring 8 | 106 |
| Let's Open the Dam | 107 |
| A Study of Women's History 4 | 108 |
| A Study of Women's History 6 | 109 |
| The People of the Earth 8 | 110 |
| What Is History? I | 111 |
| On the Way to Ch'ongju | 113 |
| Sisters, Now We Are the Path and the Light | 114 |
| It Will Be a New World | 116 |
| A Letter Written with the Left Hand | 117 |
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| My Phone Rings Endlessly | 119 |
| About Women | 121 |
| For the Second Time in Thirty-Three Years | 122 |
| House of Memories | 123 |
| From Early on I Was | 125 |
| While Watching Sunset | 126 |
| Instead of a Dream | 127 |
| Night Owl | 128 |
| Portrait of the Marginalized | 129 |
| Untitled 2 | 130 |
| Do You Remember Chongp'a Street? | 133 |
| A Voice | 134 |
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| Life Within an Egg | 136 |
| Female Buddha | 140 |
| Floating Metonymy 2 | 142 |
| Love Song for the Belly Button I | 144 |
| Floating Metonymy 5 | 145 |
| Growing Pearl I | 147 |
| Institutions | 149 |
| Soaring | 150 |
| Wailer | 152 |
| Mother's Feet | 154 |
| Between Saint and Witch | 156 |
| Na Hyesok's Complex | 158 |
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| The Sea at Twenty-Four | 162 |
| In the Subway-Getting Used to Ugliness 3 | 163 |
| The Woman I Carelessly Killed | 164 |
| Veronica, a Double Life | 165 |
| Poetry | 166 |
| A Phone Call from Immortality | 167 |
| Between May and June | 168 |
| A Leafy Plant of Wisdom | 170 |
| Rain | 171 |
| Women's Words | 172 |
| Women's Language | 173 |
| Images | 174 |
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| Record of a Certain Summer | 176 |
| Woman Mopping With a Rag Mop | 178 |
| Pure Talk | 180 |
| The Bear | 181 |
| Snow | 182 |
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| Memories of the Day I Gave Birth to a Daughter | 184 |
| Not Knowing He's Dead | 186 |
| Daybreak in Seoul | 187 |
| National Museum Hallway | 189 |
| Taklamakan | 191 |
| Inside the Iris | 192 |
| Women | 193 |
| A Very Old Hotel | 195 |
| Mice | 196 |
| A Teardrop | 197 |
| Driving During a Shower | 198 |
| A Bloody Clock | 199 |
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| Peace on Earth | 202 |
| Song of Mary | 203 |
| Triangle, Mirror | 205 |
| Triangle, Comb | 206 |
| Memory of Underdevelopment | 207 |
| Miscellaneous Bouquet | 208 |
| Disease That Arrives at Death | 209 |
| Happy Walk | 210 |
| Face | 211 |
| Wedding | 212 |
| Children on Top of the Hill | 213 |
| Fish and Sauce | 215 |
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| Dance of Death | 216 |
| Under Her Rib | 217 |
| All Dreams Are Sexual | 218 |
| When He Said, "Soul" | 219 |
| A New Year's Card | 220 |
| I'm Surplus | 221 |
| Sorrow Wakes Me | 222 |
| Two Doors | 223 |
| Huge Mouth | 224 |
| A Walk | 225 |
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| Dance | 227 |
| A Knife Gets Bigger | 228 |
| The South Yard | 230 |
| The Hidden Path | 231 |
| A Bowl of Mul Kimch'i | 232 |
| The Sewing Box | 233 |
| I'm a Dragonfly Caught in a Net | 234 |
| Sunlight Showers Down in Sheets | 235 |
| Suddenly, the Yard Where Rice and Yeast Brew | 236 |
| Monsoon Season Opens Children's Eyes | 237 |
| The Water in a Gourd | 238 |
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| A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 1 | 240 |
| A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 7 | 241 |
| A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 8 | 242 |
| Our Old Home | 243 |
| An Open-Eyed Blind Man | 244 |
| For the Sake of Two Screws | 245 |
| Grandmother's Sea | 246 |
| Taking a Watermelon as a Paradigm | 247 |
| Holiday Inside an Incubator | 248 |
| The Bread and I | 249 |
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| Dracula | 251 |
| Van Gogh | 252 |
| Dickinson's Blue Sleeve | 253 |
| As My Will... | 254 |
| Dance | 255 |
| Organizing a Drawer | 256 |
| For Men to Tell How Human Life Began... | 257 |
| A Morning Stroll | 258 |
| I Ask in the Late Evening | 259 |
| Farewell, My Youth | 260 |
| Night, Work | 260 |
| Igloo! Igloo! | 261 |
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| Obsession | 263 |
| Menstrual Irregularities | 264 |
| A Recurring Nightmare: My Amputation | 265 |
| A Small Wooden Vessel | 266 |
| The Midnight Caller | 267 |
| To the Man Holding a Sickle | 268 |
| The Wind God Sends Forth | 269 |
| Lies | 270 |
| Plantain | 271 |
| The Highway | 272 |
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| Love in an Empty Lot | 274 |
| Sober, Remaining | 275 |
| A Weeping Singer | 276 |
| One White Dream | 277 |
| The One at Rest | 278 |
| When I Think About the Past | 279 |
| Poem | 280 |
| No Return | 281 |
| The Butterfly | 282 |
| Train Leaving | 282 |
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| For Five Minutes | 284 |
| That Place Isn't Far | 285 |
| Dirty Nylons | 286 |
| Women Within Me | 287 |
| Like the Vineyard | 288 |
| Song of Grass | 289 |
| A Cold Rain Comes | 290 |
| Sleeping on the Nail | 291 |
| There Is Such an Evening | 292 |
| Five A.M. | 293 |
| Biographical Notes | 295 |