Inside someone’s dream, I am dying every day.
I am the fear of ice
melting in warm water
the story delicately moving
like spawn.
I cannot list the things that I love
one by one.
Changing my face a few times,
I think of
the time I belong to
and the time that escapes from me.
Dreaming somebody else’s dream
and smiling
somebody else’s smile,
I might be the foreign air
or sometimes, the memory of a real thing.
I am bleeding
I am sorrow becoming a human being
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.
