Myung Mi Kim


from Dura

     
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     Who even came this way, bellow or saw
     
     Thirty and five books
     
     Paper           script          document
     
     Vowels unwritten
     
     Kinglists               proverbs                praise phrases
     
     They say it is the ocean
     
     Indistinguishable water horizon net of worth
     
     False vocalization of the consonantal text
     
     Rose thorn and reported ocean
     
     The beginnings of things
     
     
     
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     What most visible staged above treeline
     
     Plural        stellar         famish
     
     Viaducts to carry away and bring back
     
     Sewer and thread restitutive
     
     Recast          deliberate           meterorite
     
     What kind of listening is it
     
     Doubtful wagon wheel
     
     Exostetal complete with spongy matter
     
     Catch          sieve         salve                   
     
     
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     No chance at the thing drying
     
     Making one hand then the other in plaster
     
     Parchment          bark              skin
     
     Stone copper other enduring materials
     
     Rank flutter(as)      I see. . . and look about
     
     Grains torpor carve a dome
     
     Up until contact a meadow resembles a smooth surface
     
     More than dialogue spent on a cloud
     
     Transcription barely permeable              
     
     
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     Prime of it tender tendril
     
     Another copier scribe to sound
     
     Affectionate taking and undertaking
     
     Swift the rushes, thrushes
     
     Bora         barium           buffer
     
     If the cucumber surpasses its ideal growth overnight
     
     If thrown off the house or horse
     
     And the.   You must designate the article
     
     Lop off the top where the milliner's wooden box doesn't reach
     
     
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     Pilferage          orphanage          raise
     
     Progress in learning
     
     The cow and her calf
     
     First flute cut from bamboo
     
     First fabric dye from snails
     
     Five tone and seven tone scales
     
     _________ - a short lyric poem
                        or, the founder of a family
     
     _________ - an ancestral tablet
     
     
     _________ - a new world
     
     
     _________ - a dried radish leaves
     
     
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     Air water none gentle aligned
     
     Supplicant and mendicant
     
     Of the opening spaces       of the opening itself
     
     Aptitude          round          across
     
     If one thing is seen and seen clearly and the effort to see it
     
     Hummingbird in floxglove whir
     
     Ocean reveals one boat
     
     Chance to see it     ocean and hummingbird
     
     Speed and duration
     


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