Considering a line by Kim Seung-hee

It is worth remarking that “mense” is a shortening of menstruation, which I have heard Korean women, my ex-wife especially, say; however, I cannot further elucidate the reason, but can only speculate, if this is because menstruation is a difficult word, or if the shortening has become shorthand Konglish, thus the source becoming lost the molasses of cross-cultural slang. My ex-wife would refer to the dog being “on her mense.”

Kim Seung-hee is one of the finest poets ever & everyone should rummage her poetry from somewhere & read it.

 Considering a line by Kim Seung-hee
  
 …“The world of propriety properly exists”
 except for me & Seung-hee.
                                  
 I’d put a blowtorch to nature. 
 “You can’t spell immense without ‘men’.” Fuck off.
  
 You can’t spell it without mense too.  
 But how best to translate “dangyeon” in this context 
  
 : propriety | naturalness | rightness | common sense | a matter of course? 
 It is more felt than describable—utterly personal. 
  
 “On the final night I saw a firefly exit the darkness”
 is all I will say | the rest will be kept secret |
  
 especially the… syncopated 
 squeak from somewhere in the dark vegetation | 
  
 the coarse whine of a puppy tied to a wall  
 & the wind fidgeting in tightly zipped spaces 
              
 —then late sunlight like a genuflect hyphen | hurried clouds | blue | terrific
& the dreams that kept me awake…