" You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed
Through veils. How else can it be seen?
How will you rip away the veil of the eye, the veil
That you are, you who want to grasp the heart
Of things, hungry to know where meaning
Lies.
-- excerpt from "Monologue for an Onion "
― Suji Kwock Kim , Notes from the Divided Country: Poems