we float as long as we have a swim cap the child’s head is wet a neat temperament sparkles beneath the fluorescent light there is a Judas Gate in the swimming pool and those who are sinking are pushed into a single hole the closeness of things that are far away let’s tele let’s call us tele memory and dreams are traces of resistance rummaging through abolished time throughout last night you and I were hurting at the same time cybers that share every in-between now even the fingertips are permeated with an artificial nuance old technology feels like a part of the body
Kang Yihyun is a poet based in South Korea. His work has been noted for its lively imagination and its subtle, wistful sensibility, observing life through delicate frictions and shifting perceptual boundaries. Kang’s poems have appeared in Eunoia Review, Spillwords, Poetry Potion, and Rivener Literary.