recitation : Zane Ivy  (professor of Kunkuk University)

 
 
 
             Water


Ji Hye Shin


I am water
a nomad, a droplet
adrift on an aimless wind
having roamed about the universe
lays its weary body on a river
without rent flesh, without shattered bones
rejoins the others in an unified embrace
and goes to the ocean


floating on the swell of the sea
sleeping like the dead
abandons the world
along with a salt-embedded wind


endless sky
a canopy of heaven above
coming through its rattling doors
a drop ripe with the smell of life
swims through stars and space
a journey through deep night, parted clouds
turning into another drop of water
once again turning into a river
then an ocean
solid seeds of water
even if evaporated cannot be destroyed
neither in the midst of the unadorned atmosphere
nor in the core of earth that penetrates the planet
in this world and the next
an interminable life

I am only water.