[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Poetry Commendation Award: To Unfold a Bird

Written by Lee Su-myeong Translated by Noh Hye-yeon To Unfold a Bird A bird followed by hundreds of birds. I pass through the hundred-fold bird, without disturbance. The birds are seething. I move myself. I move a rock. The birds enter the rock, leave the rock. I move the rock against the direction of bird, while they watch How to Fall Under the Minari Family Every morning I wake minari. I hover as minari. I see a function f I do not understand. In theory, I follow the rhythms of minari standing still as exception. A lump of rhythms in the shape of minari Rhythm outside rhythm Rhythm is no abode Rhythm is most of me blended into it, therefore I push myself aside Pulled apart, blade by blade I break into today’s minari and try to repair minari, but a machine only wants a larger machine to smash itself, rather than become the machine itself. Minari leaps into the minari family The minari family grows smaller And smells foul on occasion. Into the hollow leaf Fly the great bundles of minari I wake minari. In the mechanical arrangement, most minari are nothing beyond minari Muddled, it looms. ...