Inside Passage Poem by Chulsoo Kim

Go back to Seattle
Sail the Inside Passage
Clear and clearer water melted from glaciers
heightens calmness
so that ever the flow is blended,
the clearness deep there is thrown up
so that some centuries of clearness's deeper sunken up
is cast on the all the surface of water
and in there
Its vigor is also bottomlessly ejected into the air
so as the mist having
the blossoming vigor of
heavy and heavier
and far-off old and older days
showing overwhelming figures
on the surface
and finally opening the sight
which some centuries' suppression is making
Islands everywhere and therewhere
project the colourful soaring of those figures
on long times opressing silent syllables
and add the waiting of still and calm in there
As the conversation with remote times
is heard
within 360 degree panoramatic spreading out views,
the signal which the condensation of those times is sent
is heard
Those breathing sounds being
within the harmony in real and old times
which those islands are making
go into pulses of hearts' beats
All those vibration, those pressure, those disturbance
attain the equilibrium calmly
and ask conversation
to those many times of waitings in future
Put the waiting
which might be caught within the reach of hand's handing out
into heart