시를 읽는 집
지난봄에 붕붕 날아든 꿀벌을 따라서
어머니의 젖을 떼고 시집을 온 후에는
아무리 꽃을 피워도 호박꽃만 만발하네
꽃송이 아랫배가 봉긋해진 여름날
장미가 되고 싶어 가시를 돋우니
호박잎 손바닥 위엔 솜 가시만 보송보송
새콤한 가을 햇살이 입덧을 잠재우고
가슴 안에 조롱조롱 잉태된 씨앗들로
궁둥이는 펑퍼짐해도 내 웃음은 황금빛
Since I followed the bumblebee
that buzzed in last spring
and left my mother’s breasts
to get married away from home
All I could blossom
were a bunch of pumpkin flowers
One summer day
as my flowering underbelly started to bulge
I wished to be a rose
and pushed out my thorns
but all I got was prickly hair
on my green leafy palms
Sour sweet rays of autumn sun
quell the morning sickness
As my heart gets pregnant
with all the teeming seeds
My buttocks may be flabby yet
my smile is golden