Taemong by Kimberly McAfee
Taemong Kimberly McAfee After Li-Young Lee*My mother had a dream of me,when she and I were one.She dreamed of a snakecoiled on her belly.It was her taemong, her conception dream, of me.How Adam and Eve were so deceived!A wily snake, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.Introducing suffering on this earth.A snake condemned to writhe about the world on its belly.I was strange when I was young;a half-Korean girl in a place with no other Asians or mixed people.How the other children were so deceived!I was no gorgon!I was a human child — just like them.I once had a dream,where I warred against an…
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