Most of the time, ears, eyes, mouth, and nose exist as they like,
but today they come back to their own places for me.
However I’ve never learned how to arrange them.
I am becoming myself
I would like to
love myself
but from where on earth does this awkward hour come?
Gradually, I get mad at the smell of the newly-cooked rice.
My life seems to last longer than I do.
Shin Hae-uk has been publishing since 1998, including the poetry collections
간결한 배치 [Precise Arrangement], 생물성 [Biologicity], syzygy, and
무족영원 [Caeciliendless], the essay collections
비성년 열전 [Lives of the Unadults], and
1인용 책 [Book for Just One], the novel
해몽전파사 [The Oneiroelectrical Shop], and
창밖을 본다 [Looking Out the Window], a hybrid work of essay and fiction. She won Korea’s Authors’ Choice Emerging Poet Award in 2010 and received the 8th Kim Hyun Literary Prize in 2022.
