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Withering Leaves

Withering Leaves By Kim Mella Translated by Victoria Caudle here was a man. He performed miracles: changing water into Twine, healing the lame and the blind, and walking on water. He brought dead children back to life, cured servants of sickness, unfurled a man’s clawed hand, and stopped the twelve-year flow of blood from a woman’s body. He ate in the streets, oe ft n fasted, and rose with the sun to pray. He would eat sheaves of grain cut from wheat fields, and berries picked from trees. Then, one day, he went to a tree to find berries to eat as he always did when he was hungry. However, its branches were thick with only leaves and no berries were to be found. Because it was not yet time for trees to bear fruit. But the man became angry, and he cursed the tree, and, as he did, the tree’s trunk twisted and its leaves dried up. The man’s followers were astonished by his powers. They didn’t know that, not long ae ft r, he would be hung up to die on some wood. Would the man have known? He probably did. They left and the tree withered alone. —Oh! http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

Withering Leaves

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University of Hawai'I Press
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1939-6120
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1944-6500
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10.1353/aza.2022.0005
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By Kim Mella Translated by Victoria Caudle here was a man. He performed miracles: changing water into Twine, healing the lame and the blind, and walking on water. He brought dead children back to life, cured servants of sickness, unfurled a man’s clawed hand, and stopped the twelve-year flow of blood from a woman’s body. He ate in the streets, oe ft n fasted, and rose with the sun to pray. He would eat sheaves of grain cut from wheat fields, and berries picked from trees. Then, one day, he went to a tree to find berries to eat as he always did when he was hungry. However, its branches were thick with only leaves and no berries were to be found. Because it was not yet time for trees to bear fruit. But the man became angry, and he cursed the tree, and, as he did, the tree’s trunk twisted and its leaves dried up. The man’s followers were astonished by his powers. They didn’t know that, not long ae ft r, he would be hung up to die on some wood. Would the man have known? He probably did. They left and the tree withered alone. —Oh!

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jul 14, 2022

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