Taklamakan Desert

Why I’m going to the Taklamakan Desert: the emptiness there. Why I’m going to the Taklamakan Desert at seventy-five, leaving all words behind: the cry of the emptiness there. Why I’m going to the Taklamakan Desert: I can no longer stand the world’s greed or mine. There, in the Taklamakan Desert, the silence of a thousand-year-old skull. Translated from the Korean