Mantis 22 (Summer 2024)
dis.orientations
Park Joon
처서
앞집에 살던 염장이는
평소 도장을 파면서 생계를 이어가다
사람이 죽어야 집 밖으로 나왔다
죽은 사람이 입던 옷들을 가져와
지붕에 빨아 너는 것도 그의 일이었다
바람이 많이 불던 날에는
속옷이며 광목 셔츠 같은 것들이
우리가 살던 집 마당으로 날아 들어왔다
마루로 나와 앉은 당신과 나는
희고 붉고 검고 하던 그 옷들의 색을
눈에 넣으며 여름의 끝을 보냈다
Originally published in We May See the Rainy Season Together by Moonji Publishing Co., Ltd.
PARK JOON made his debut in 2008 through Silchon Munhak. His first poetry collection I Took Your Name and Ate It for Some Days was a bestseller that sold over 100,000 copies in South Korea alone, ranking ninth among bestselling poetry collections on Interpark Books for five years. He won the Park Jaesam Literature Award and the Pyeon-un Literature Award in 2019, and the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature in 2013. Apart from the two poetry collections, he has co-authored five different anthologies and published the essay collection Though Crying Won’t Change a Thing that won the Prize for Young Artists.