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“Backcountry Metaphor” by Shin Yong-Mok
Like an amputee’s discarded leg,I’m lying down.Somebody closes a window. The passing sky overhead resembles bloodstains on an empty ICU bed in a darkened room. Someone is leaving me. The hurried clack, clack of crutches. Where could my youth be going?Unwrapping the bandages in the delicate red of the evening light,I see infection setting in…