[좋은영시7]The Bare Arms of Trees by John Tabliabue-앙상한 나무가지: 존 탈리야뷰

 

The Bare Arms of Trees

 

John Tagliabue

 

 

 

Sometimes when I see the bare arms of trees in the evening

I think of men who have died without love,

Of desolation and space bewteen branch and branch,

I think of immovable whiteness and lean coldness and fear

And the terrible longing between people stretched apart as these

branches

And the cold space between.

 

I think of the vastness and courage between this step and that step

Of the yearning and fear of the meeting, of the terrible desire

held apart.

 

I think of the ocean of longing that moves between land and land

And between people, the space and ocean.

 

The bare arms of the trees are immovable, without the play of

leaves, without the sound of the wind,

I think of the unseen love and the unknown thoughts that exist

between tree and tree

As I pass these things in the evening, as I walk.

 

 

 

 

 

a scene from September, 2008  (우리집 뒤)

 

 

 

When life gives you scraps,

make quilts.