{"id":414859,"date":"2024-10-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=414859"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Between-the-immensities-Winter-Through-a-Mirror-Part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Between-the-immensities-Winter-Through-a-Mirror-Part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the immensities: Winter Through a Mirror Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024. Nobel officials recognized Han Kang for her \u201cintense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.\u201d Kang was born in Korea in 1970. She first published five poems in 1993 at 23 years of age. She has since moved on to short stories and novels. Here is Part 5 of one of her first poems. She writes in Korean. This is a translation of her longer poem, \u201cWinter Through a Mirror\u201d Part 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Winter Through a Mirror Part 5\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy eyes are two candle stubs sliding drops of wax as they<\/p>\n<p>consume the wick, it is not searing nor painful, they say that<\/p>\n<p>the quivering of the bluish flame core is the coming of souls,<\/p>\n<p>souls sit on my eyes and quiver, they hum, the outer flame<\/p>\n<p>swaying in the distance sways to get further off, tomorrow you<\/p>\n<p>leave for the furthest city, here I am ablaze, now you put your<\/p>\n<p>hands into the tomb of the void and wait, memory bites your<\/p>\n<p>fingers like a snake, you are not seared, nor in pain, your<\/p>\n<p>unflinching face does not burn or shatter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/51ec1f1100d5d7eea9228e5f43276c9f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joey aka &#8220;Pepe Batbon&#8221; Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024. Nobel officials&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}