Heo Nanseolheon
Translated from Old Korean by Suphil Lee Park

VERSE ON SWING EXCURSION

Off the swing, my shoes back on
I stand speechless on the steps
Top gently soaked in light sweat
My hairpiece long forgotten

HEO NANSEOLHEON (1563–1589) was a Korean painter and poet of the mid-Joseon dynasty.

SUPHIL LEE PARK (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is the author of the poetry collection Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize (Conduit Books & Ephemera, 2021), and a poetry chapbook, Still Life (Factory Hollow Press), selected by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Born and raised in South Korea, she holds a BA in English from NYU and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Texas at Austin. Her translations of Korean poems appear in Cincinnati Review, the Los Angeles Review, and New England Review.