When the wind blows,
the creek’s waters climb against their course.
Each time,
dry palms of red, blue, and yellow
creak along the riverbed,
their path growing ever more confused.

The faces of a year slip from my fingertips,
unfurling into dawn’s mist,
veiling the forest—
until the forest itself becomes a single stream,
falling toward the tip of every branch.

A traveler, pausing on his road,
offers up his heart
and becomes the stream
that calls to the wind
hungry for five long days.

When the fierce fog—
from which no one escapes—
finally lifts,
the forest stands bare,
raising its palms to the setting sun,
facing once more toward the sea.

Every face has turned to wind,
quivering from the nearest depth of the earth.

© TaeHun Yoon, 1978

*The cover of (Busan) 시로 Poetry Anthology No. 3 was personally created by artist Seo Sang-hwan, Ph.D., who loved the members of the group, as a woodblock print titled Human Restoration.