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“In That House” by Lee Soo-Myeong
In that housea staircasedescendslike eyes. A staircaselike eyes shifting sideways.A staircase turned to grey hairlike eyes. My feet fill the airlike black sirens. In that housethere isa staircase meltinglike eyes. 그 집에는눈처럼떨어지고 있는계단들이 있다. 눈처럼수평으로 이동하는눈처럼 백발이 되어버린계단들이 있다. 검은 사이렌처럼허공을 내 발들로 채우고 그 집에는눈처럼녹고 있는계단들이 있다. “In That House” (그 집에는) originally appeared in Daum…
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“A Love Only in Death” by Cha Chang-Ryong
In the Ganges, drifts a rose.The melting Himalayas flow into an icy riverthat loves to wrap roses in its arms,but when the two embrace, river causes rose to die.In the warmth of sunlight, a rose afloat on a blackened handloves the river and wants to get lost in river’s bosom,but river would soon cause rose…
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“Deep Kiss” by Kim Ki-Taek
The moment your mouth first opens and my tongue hangs between your lips.The moment my tongue is everything, my entire body melting.The moment my returning tongue passes past my throat to the bottom of my toes.The moment ten toes stand up all at once.The moment a feeling hung before my eyes shoots up violently from…
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“Words That Make You” by Kim So-Yeon
Let’s say it’s a sigh.Let’s say that we didn’t have the skill to find the light ourselves.Spinning beyond the earth, ever the over-night worker,the old muscle of moonlight. Let’s say it’s a promise.Let’s say that one time to hide it wellwe searched out the miserable tears of ninety-nine clouds. Let promises overflow like tears which…
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“Waltz” by Choi Kyu-Seung
A woman embracing the shadow of a tree.In the darkly sparkling afternoon,she closes her eyes,breathes a beat and turns her head.Her surroundings blurand no one knowsthe woman staring outside the frame.People take photosand delete them,the blurred background becoming clear on their screens.She breathes another beat and her footstepshold onto,spill out and over the tree’s shadow.…
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“Hands” by Shin Hae-Wook
You put on the glove. Your hands have become smaller somehowand because you’ve placed them on your knees,stranger still. * What I envied, actually,wasn’t youbut your smooth fingers. You hold my handin your fingers,touch my face,touch yours. Why can’t love be between by three people?Why in this worldis there no one else but you? *…
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“Canaan” by Lee Yeong-Gwang
“Where will Canaan go to church,” she asked.“The road’s rough, so keep close,” I said.As if this pleased her, she smiled and her whole floral-print jacket smiled along with her.This woman who would barely pass for 30, following over 40 year-old memore happily than any other woman in my life.Cherry blossoms wilting, we pass from…