Vasko Popa (조영필 역)
달빛에
지금 저게 뭐야
마치 살이 약간의 눈같은 살이
내게 달라붙은 것처럼
뭔지 모르겠어
골수가 나를 관통하여 달리는 것처럼
약간의 뼈시린 골수
나도 몰라
모든 것이 다시 시작된 것처럼
더 끔찍한 시작으로
당신은 뭔지 아니
짖어 볼래
In the moonlight
What's that now
As if flesh some snowy flesh
Were clinging to me
I don't know what it is
As if marrow were running through me
Some cold marrow
I don't know either
As if everything were beginning again
With a more horrible beginning
Do you know what
Can you bark
(Vasko Popa Selected Poems, translated by Anne Pennington, Penguin Books, 1969)
In the moonlight
What's going on
It's as if flesh snowlike flesh
Were sticking to me
I don't know what it is
It's as if marrow flows through me
Some bone-chilling marrow
I don't know either
It's as if all is starting again
With a terrifying beginning
Do you know what
Can you bark
(Homage to the lame wolf, translated by Charles Simic, Oberlin College Press, 1987)