“Fifty” by Lee Yeong-Gwang
It’s been a blur, vague like the names of characters I can’t quite remember from a Russian novel I’ve read, but I am fifty. Disorienting, like an old sexual desire which eats Viagra to be...
Monthly Archive: April 2014
“River” by Hwang In-Sook
Don’t open up to me about how lonely you are, how burdened you are, how much you want to go crazy, how sane you are,about the bugs in your heart, the moths in your wardrobe,...
“Small Love Song” by Hwang Dong-Kyu
I received a letter which held yesterday. The path that had always trailed behind you suddenly disappeared, and everything that wasn’t the path went with it. Scattered stones which played with us as kids hide away their faces. I...
“Jealousy is My Strength” by Ki Hyeong-Do
After much time has passed, a weak bookmark will make these pages fall. In the past, my heart filled so many booklets. Foolish, but there was much to write. I was anxious in the open...
“A Time of Goodbyes: Part 1” by Lee Hong
May, 1996: 19 year-old me is slowly slipping further away from home. The backs of a few buildings have already begun to blur by the time I arrive at the bus stop, bra strap adjusted...
“Lover” by Heo Yeong-Ja
Gaze secretly downwards on clear days through clearness on rainy days through rain in dew in flowers in the morning star… my love in all creation it is you I see. 그윽히 굽어보는 눈길...
“To Loneliness” by Hwang Yoon-Sook
Some poets, on seeing a wheel, want to roll. Some painters, on seeing a flat surface lifted up, want to walk along inside it. Me, on seeing worn planks raised up and scattered, I want...