Extra Fancy

"Beh" (Korean pear,) good for the heart. A must-eat for the empress.

Grandmother's Espresso Machine

Meet my new coffee maker. I found it in my cabinet and fell in love when it actually works! What if I never ran out of coffee filters?

Ko Un

Sometime during fall, The New Yorker printed Four Poems. I love

Frogs croaking in flooded paddies--
if there really is a world beyond,
echo far enough so my dead brother can hear.