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Cow eyes
Those dull vacant eyes
My grandmother’s eyes.

My grandmother!
The most sacred person in the world to me.

A cow that has stopped grazing the fresh grass
And is just standing there.

But she is not my grandmother after all:
Rather, this world’s peace,

Dead and denied a tomb.

(Ko Un was born in Korea in 1933. Ten Thousand Lives, the collection where this poem appears, is his major work with a determination to describe every person he had ever met.  The collection is a part of the first ten volumes edited by Per Bregne, published in 2005.

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