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		<title>Silent Spring</title>
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		<dc:creator>by Seok Chang, <span style="text-transform: lowercase;">translated by</span> Jake Levine and Soohyun Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Reading by Jake Levine</em> &#160; The door is shut. The road where flower petals fall<br /> half on this side, half on that.<br /> Of all the things that used to buzz about<br /> no trace is left. Joy, sadness,<br /> weddings and funerals, they turn on their heels.<br /> Not even God can step through the door<br /> of destiny. In a tank in the neighborhood seafood restaurant<br /> a crowd of fish<br /> swim weightlessly.<br /> The youngest one stands still, belly up<br /> dragging its face against the floor. The door with an angry face that hides fear<br /> keeps its mouth shut.<br /> The blue paint on the beam above the door peels<br /> and spring sunshine enters the broken window<br /> where news used to buzz around like gnats. This place is crowded with a love<br /> that can&#8217;t take care of itself.<br /> Deep in the newsless valley<br /> white masked children<br /> and &#8230;</p>
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<p><em>Reading by Jake Levine</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The door is shut.</p>
<p>The road where flower petals fall<br />
half on this side, half on that.<br />
Of all the things that used to buzz about<br />
no trace is left.</p>
<p>Joy, sadness,<br />
weddings and funerals, they turn on their heels.<br />
Not even God can step through the door<br />
of destiny.</p>
<p>In a tank in the neighborhood seafood restaurant<br />
a crowd of fish<br />
swim weightlessly.<br />
The youngest one stands still, belly up<br />
dragging its face against the floor.</p>
<p>The door with an angry face that hides fear<br />
keeps its mouth shut.<br />
The blue paint on the beam above the door peels<br />
and spring sunshine enters the broken window<br />
where news used to buzz around like gnats.</p>
<p>This place is crowded with a love<br />
that can&#8217;t take care of itself.<br />
Deep in the newsless valley<br />
white masked children<br />
and black masked elders<br />
in the Love Daycare Center and Nursing Home<br />
that no one comes to visit.</p>
<p>We travel along the ancient coastline<br />
always toward crowdedness.</p>
<p>The houses, stables, and cities we built<br />
turned into a massacre pit in the end.<br />
Like the pigs and chickens we buried<br />
we crowded, tighter and tighter.</p>
<p>Sometimes as the wretched, as refugees<br />
but mostly as happy travelers<br />
always moving around busily.</p>
<p>Like two shadows standing<br />
back to back with a pillar between them<br />
an old man who lost connection<br />
and a young man, almost cut off<br />
hanging from charger cords<br />
in the underground sidewalk shelter of Euljiro 4-ga.</p>
<p>Caught in a net that covers the earth<br />
I can’t tell if a spider approaches.<br />
If I get you off me<br />
will someone get free?</p>
<p>Spring air and sunshine are so fine.<br />
Like warning about the wretched horrors committed<br />
we inform<br />
about the beauty possible when people abstain.</p>
<p>They say break free from the crowd and come close<br />
cut yourself off from false connection.<br />
They say it’s never too late<br />
to say I love you.</p>
<p>Like that spring day<br />
when we held hands in fear and surprise<br />
and walked unassuming down the beach</p>
<p>I hope that Mother emerges from the dirt pit<br />
with a baby in her arms.<br />
I want to see her walk beautifully down the spring road again.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<hr />
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p><em>Reading by Sanghyun Kim</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>침묵의 봄</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>문은 닫혀 있네</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>꽃잎 날리는 길</p>
<p>반은 이쪽으로 반은 저쪽으로</p>
<p>내달리던 것들의 자취가 없네</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>기쁨과 슬픔이</p>
<p>혼례와 장례가 발길을 돌리네</p>
<p>신도 제 정처의 문을 들어서지 못하네</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>동네 횟집의 수족관</p>
<p>밀집해 있던 물고기</p>
<p>무중력 유영을 하네</p>
<p>얼굴을 바닥에 대고 거꾸로 서 있는</p>
<p>가장 어린 것</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>두려움을 감춘 화난 표정으로</p>
<p>문은 입을 다물고 있네</p>
<p>상인방의 푸른 칠은 벗겨지고</p>
<p>봄볕은 깨진 유리창으로 들어가네</p>
<p>소식이 각다귀처럼 빗발치던 곳</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>스스로 돌보지 못하는</p>
<p>사랑이 밀집해 있네</p>
<p>흰 마스크를 쓴 아이들과</p>
<p>검은 마스크의 노인들</p>
<p>아무도 찾아오지 않는</p>
<p>무소식의 깊은 골짜기 안</p>
<p>사랑의 탁아소와 요양원</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>태고의 해안선을 따라</p>
<p>우리는 내내 밀집을 향해 이동해 갔네</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>집과 축사와 도시를 만들고</p>
<p>끝내는 학살의 구덩이를 파</p>
<p>돼지와 닭을 묻고</p>
<p>우리도 가장 밀집하게 밀접하게</p>
<p>서로 껴안았네</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>때로는 비참한 난민으로</p>
<p>대부분은 행복한 여행객으로</p>
<p>늘 바삐 이동했네</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>을지로사가 지하보도의 쉼터</p>
<p>접속이 끊긴 늙은이와</p>
<p>거의 끊긴 젊은이가</p>
<p>기둥을 사이에 두고 등을 맞댄 채</p>
<p>휴대전화 충전줄에 매달려 있네</p>
<p>서로의 그림자처럼</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>세상을 뒤덮고 있는 그물에 걸려</p>
<p>거미가 다가오는 것도 모르네</p>
<p>당신을 떼어내면</p>
<p>누가 나도 벗어나게 할까</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>이 봄의 볕과 공기는 참 좋네</p>
<p>우리가 저지르는 비천함의 참혹을 경고했듯</p>
<p>저지르지 않으면 가능한 아름다움을</p>
<p>알려주네</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>밀집을 벗어나 밀접하고</p>
<p>잘못된 거짓 연결을 끊으라 하네</p>
<p>사랑한다고 말하기에는</p>
<p>아직 늦지 않았다고</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>흙구덩이 안에서 나와</p>
<p>어머니는 아이를 안고</p>
<p>다시 봄길을 곱게 걸어가시길</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>두려움과 놀라움의 손을 잡고</p>
<p>해변을 따라 겸손하게 갔던</p>
<p>그 봄날처럼</p>
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