Moon Jar

• set in a moon jar, already shedding petals
  • • • —ah, these Korean sentences
      •    without subject

• not nearly as candid
  • • • • • as dust at the edges
• distended reverberations
• glow-in-the-dark annexations of
  • • • whatever maimed sense trails off

• once thorns are removed from the stem

• • • — without being too forward,
    • dropping honorifics,

• • • • as tactful as one can be

• may I beg for your forgiveness
• 잘 못했어
• in the iridescent space of an archetype
• that swirls around me

• • • • • • • the cutout of

• its whiteness unbearable

• • • —may I beg for the forgiveness of roses.

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