A tree foregrounds the moss garden covered in snow.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Day: February 4, 2020
Caveat: 마른 나무 좀먹듯
Here is an aphorism from my book of Korean aphorisms.
마른 나무 좀먹듯
ma.reun na.mu jom.meok.deut
be-dry-GER tree moth eat-AS-IF
[…] like a moth eating a dry tree.
Apparently this means to be consumed either by a physical ailment or by stress and anxiety. I’m not sure off the top of my head what an equivalent English language saying might be.
Caveat: Poem #1283 “Not the rock we had in mind”
The sea advances, besieges snow-covered rocks, then retreats, dismayed.
– a pseudo-haiku