Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
Photography by Choi Il-ryoung
Her Face Is a Battlefield by Hwang Byeong-seung
Like the moment the second hand takes the sixtieth step
Pushing the back of the minute hand that attacks the hour hand
Her face is a battlefield
Like kids at a public cemetery where a festival parade passes by
Who drink ten cups of jostlings and swallow twenty cups of wranglings
Whose goal is to knock down
Her face is a battlefield
She is quickly loved and quickly forgotten
Amidst darkness, a woman cries, a second woman cries
A third one rushes outside
Like endless coughs two women spit at each other’s face with a mirror in between
(Originally published in Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, Volume 5 [2012])
Hwang Byung-seung was born in Seoul in 1970. He debuted in 2003 by publishing five poems including “Primary Doctor h” in Para 21. He has published two poetry collections: Sikoku, The Man Dressed as Woman and Track and the Star of the Field.
Korean Poetry in Translation 
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