길섶, gilseop: the edge of a road, the strip where the grass is allowed to grow.
At the edge of the road
that nobody looks at
the fleabane opens.
Crabgrass, foxtail,
trodden flat and unnamed,
up again by morning.
In a world that runs down the middle
the part that gives way at the side
stays a little wet.
The morning the rains lift,
one dragonfly on the verge
dries before the road does.
개망초, 바랭이, 강아지풀 — fleabane, crabgrass, foxtail. Say the names of the verge out loud and your walking slows down.