석류 / 정지용

Namiki Emperor Urushi Red/Vermillon <M>

Jeong Ji-yong

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"Charcoal embers in the brazier blooming softly like roses; the night at the onset of spring smells of burning dry grass.
I split open a pomegranate that has survived the deep winter, tasting its ruby-like seeds, one by one. O transparent memories of the past, O rainbow of new sorrows, O feelings, tender and faint, young as a goldfish."

— Jeong Ji-yong, Pomegranate