누군가의 꿈속에서 나는 매일 죽는다
나는 따뜻한 물에 녹고 있는
얼음의 공포
물고기 알처럼 섬세하게
움직이는 이야기
나는 내가 사랑하는 것들을
하나하나 열거하지 못한다
몇 번씩 얼굴을 바꾸며
내가 속한 시간과
나를 벗어난 시간을
생각한다
누군가의 꿈을 대신 꾸며
누군가의 웃음을
대신 웃으며
나는 낯선 공기이거나
때로는 실물에 대한 기억
나는 피를 흘리고
나는 인간이 되어가는 슬픔
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.