( Picture: Namsook Han)
Again, To Love
Rusted iron rebar
Bones that once supported a building
Now lie on a truck
In the sandy wind
A fishy smell turns my stomach
Muscles twitch convulsively
Time erodes solid bone.
Deep shadows of meandering contradiction
And concealed suspicion
Cracks linked together like blood vessels
Pressed down on my shoulders
Shaking off the weights
My unbroken spirit runs
Though covered in wounds
My body is unfettered
Now, born again
I will dream
I will set iron bones deep in cement
And I will love
I will love the voices
That comes from my strong body
The fragrant spring winds
And cool water sounds
By Poet, Soonja Kwon, born in 1958, poetry 『A Thousand Tears』 etc.
Translatey Clara Soonhee Kwon-Tatum, Ph.D and Matthew Lewis, M.Ad b
