Eunheungsa Two: 8 November 2011
This ancient
temple village gives
refuge to
city dwellers as
two monks do fall chores.
Five buildings
are reconstructed
already, but this place once
had thirty. Armies
stayed and burned.
Fifteen years
of dedication
yields modern
comforts, new paint, an
enlarged plan to show.
She sweeps leaves
with a branch found near
riverbed, clearing a way
through yellow to fruit
so healthy.
Guttural
chicken clucks echo off walls
as the day’s
mating dance starts on
the yard. Two roosters
thrust necks at
each other, then chase five hens.
A chopper
disrupts natural
flow, soon disappears.
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