The Name of a Fish

by Faith Shearin

 

If winter is a house then summer is a window

in the bedroom of that house. Sorrow is a river

behind the house and happiness is the name 

 

of a fish who swims downstream. The unborn child 

who plays the fragrant garden is named Mavis:

her red hair is made of future and her sleek feet

 

are wet with dreams. The cat who naps 

in the bedroom has his paws in the sun of summer

and his tail in the moonlight of change. You and I

 

spend years walking up and down the dusty stairs

of the house. Sometimes we stand in the bedroom

and the cat walks towards us like a message.

 

Sometimes we pick dandelions from the garden

and watch the white heads blow open

in our hands. We are learning to fish in the river

 

of sorrow; we are undressing for a swim.

 

 

오늘 시 한편이 맘을 울렸고

홀린듯 사진을 골라냈어요.

나중에 후회할지 모르겠지만

가끔은 이렇게 즉흥적으로!

사진 제목 "The Light of Change".