21) Sunset

      Wolran Kim

1

A hunter, empty-handed, wandering

The heart of a mountain till nightfall

Caught one day

Flying away to the western sky

Bang!

Never seen such a death,

A huge beast

Spilled blood,filling the sky

 

2
The frozen moment is always bloody

The memory of time sliced raw by a sharp knife

Like a rising face always from the west

Is sharpening the day

The time, minimized to one millionth of a pixel

Just like a hidden alibi

Just like the hysteria of the absence of evidence

No longer rising or sinking

Imprinted to the heart of the sun

 

3

Never knew how a day is shed

Never knew how tomorrow blossoms

 

While struggling in an ignored, imaginary swamp

A siren blows through vertical blinds in each room

A flame of the day, never quenched by an ambulance

Is out of our gazes above folded arms, over the river of silence

 

Like a croquis of fallen people from the black Twin Towers

Must not have been just one or two who jumped down from the day