Month: December 2016

  • “Drying Rack” by Kim Hye-Soo

    “Drying Rack” by Kim Hye-Soo

    From the clothesline hung on the drying rack, winter laundry which nobody managed to remove for several days stretches out. Before it could be dried, it froze and unfroze. Over rehardened clothing…

  • “Moisture 2” by Kim Kwang-Kyu

    “Moisture 2” by Kim Kwang-Kyu

    My whole life I never knew. Had it happened after she left? Those little eyes, why couldn’t they bear the tears and not let them flow? Those empty, contorted lips…

  • “Love’s Starlight” by Heo Man-Ha

    “Love’s Starlight” by Heo Man-Ha

    Snowflakes fall as quietly serene as a mother gazing at the child nursing at her breast. In that gaze—the sound of wind rushing past a whip…

  • “An Unexpected Briskness” by Lee Seong-Bu

    “An Unexpected Briskness” by Lee Seong-Bu

    For me to walk is to search for love. In the streets, I learned to gather and pack together sadness to fall asleep. And there I grew used to attaching wings to my longing as I walked…

  • “In a Round Ring” by Lee Sa-Ra

    “In a Round Ring” by Lee Sa-Ra

    If in the spring sun come to rest on a window we meet and gaze into each other’s eyes like two people, like one person, as the light builds its round house in pupils, in a look, in a tear…