Cho Ji Hoon
Cave Dwelling Song
The more emaciated a body is
the fatter a soul becomes.
From a spring I drink the water,
crushed with moon and stars.
Struck by the frosty knife,
my youth proffered me
and injured by the war machine
I fled alone, nursing my wound.
Huge is the reward
for being alive!
So I pluck the weeds
and cry.
O, my dream, today,
again run through the wide plain.
The leaves fall
in the deep mountain valley.
암혈의노래
야외면 야월 수록
살지는 혼
별과 달이 부서진
샘물을 마신다
젊음이 내게 준
서리발 칼을 맞고
창이를 어루만지며
내 홀로 쫓겨왔으나
세상에 남은 보람이
오히려 크기에
풀을 뜯으며
나는 우노라
꿈이여 오늘도
광야를 달리거라
깊은 산골에
잎이진다
published in Anomaly, volume 35, September 2022