Salt Water Plums

*이 글의 1부 “3월의 베를린”은 한국어로, 2부 “Berlin in August”는 영어로 되어 있습니다. 번역은 하지 않았습니다. *The first part of this …

Each year becomes more difficult to distinguish from the last. 2021 was a little creature attached at 2020’s hip, a …

*performed at Stanford Spoken Word Collective’s 2021 Fall Show On a cereal box shaking Sunday morning, can’t shake the feeling that …

I’m back for my fourth rendition of annual anthems. Songs that defined my year, whether it be through a period …

I apologize if this title is misleading. I can’t drive anywhere, but my hometown is the only place I’ve tried. …

Lunchtime, a distant chime.Number 5 when sorted by height.I had no passport. Porco Rosso saidHe’d rather be a pig than …

Once I was an empress Once I was a bear eating garlic in the dark Once I was a cotton …

(Written June 2021. I didn’t upload it at the time because it felt so ridiculously incomplete. It still does.) I …

(커버 이미지: 서울혁신파크) 어제 퇴근하며 버스를 탔다. 대중교통에 앉을 자리가 있다면 책을 읽는 편이라 무의식적으로 책을 꺼내 무릎에 놓았다. 접혀 …

You have to realize two things at once. That you’re doing the best you can. And that you could be …

어느새 멀어진 두 사람 사이의 연락을 ‘생존신고’라 칭한다. 한때는 사소한 이야기들부터 눈물의 하소연까지 공유했던 우정이, 시간이 흘러 서로 살아있는가 정도만 …

It wasn’t the joke. It was the feeling of being in on it. We’d trickle out from one room and …

I’m a little annoyed that a year that sounds so pretty in the mouth had to be so filthy in …

소속감은 근로계약서를 쓸 때 오지 않았다. 개인 사물함에 칫솔을 넣었을 때 처음 느꼈고, 신발장에 내 이름이 붙었을 때 두 번째로 …

*가을에 쓴 글입니다. *Written this autumn; rough English translation below. 아무튼 그렇다. MBTI 타입 중 INFP가 가장 미래지향적이라는 의견도 있다. …

I’m not sure why I continue to make these annual music posts when no one asks for them. I realize …

There’s a woman in her 20’s. Bar 2. Orders a Midori Sour and puts her phone light under it to …

and I was in tears before I realized what was happening. Where this familiar tune had struck me last. Perhaps …

Performed at Stanford University, December 2019. Mercury is in retrograde this month. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean, …

*부산에서 한 달을 지내고 돌아온 직후, 5월 말에 쓴 글입니다. 지금의 생각은 또 다릅니다. *This was written right after my …