이목구비는 대부분의 시간을 제멋대로 존재하다가
오늘은 나를 위해 제자리로 돌아온다.
그렇지만 나는 정돈하는 법을 배운 적이 없다.
나는 내가 되어가고
나는 나를
좋아하고 싶어지지만
이런 어색한 시간은 도대체 어디서 오는 것일까.
나는 점점 갓 지은 밥 냄새에 미쳐간다.
내 삶은 나보다 오래 지속될 것만 같다.
SHIN Hae Wook (b. 1974) was born in Chooncheon. She studied Korean Literature at Hanlim University and the Graduate School of Korea University. She made her literary debut in 1998 and her poetry books include A Brief Arrangement (2005) and The Nature of Life (2009). In her second poetry book The Nature of Life, the poet focuses on “I-myself,” laying the gaps between I and the real. According to the poet, she tries to focus on the world of a side glance without taking her eyes off it. Drawing a weird, distorted portrait of our age, the poet is creating a world of minute silence written in the blank page between black letters.