김청미 "새 생은 저만큼" (중국어 영어 번역)

金清美（1964- ）

 

〈來世新生裏能那樣〉

 

捕撈章魚謀生的水渠邊阿母

說什麼泥灘裏穿綺衣是奢華

一件衣服也沒買過的小氣鬼

被平生捕撈的章魚魂魄纏住

她的腿想舉也太吃力舉起來

曳著那腿去每五天開的市場

探頭衣服店帶個小包袱回來

恰如離開老家嫁出去的那天

似乎在說來生裏要那麼美麗

綠衣紅裳再配上冠子的壽衣

就那樣一套

來世新生祝阿母能那樣輕盈

 

               注：〈綠衣紅裳〉，並非菊花品種。在韓文中是年青女人所穿之美麗衣服。曾有新娘婚後穿至生第一胎時之習俗。

（半賓譯）

 

Kim Ch'ōng-mi (1964- )

 

"May in the Next Life"

 

Mom by the brooklet, living on the octopuses she catches,

The pinchpenny never bought a single dress for herself,

Saying that pretty dress on tidal mud beach was an unfitting luxury.

She finds it hard these days even to lift her legs,

For the soul of all the octopuses she has caught are clinging to her,

But drags along her legs to go to the once-every-five-day market.

She snoops around clothes stores, and comes back with a small bundle,

Just like the day when she left home to get married off,

As if saying that she wants to be pretty like that—

A green jacket, a red skirt, and a matching headpiece as shroud,

Just a single set as that.

May her new life in the next life be nimble as that.

 

               Note: "Green jacket and red skirt 綠衣紅裳," unlike in Chinese in which the phrase refers to particular species of chrysanthemum, means in Korean pretty dress worn by young women.  The color combination is commonly seen in the traditional dress for the bride. There used to be a practice of newly-wed bride wearing the dress until giving birth to the first baby.

(H. Rhew, tr.)

 

 

韓文原文：

 

김청미 (1964- )

 

"새 생은 저만큼"

 

낙지 잡는 샘돌 엄니

갯벌에 좋은 옷 호사라며

제 손으로 옷 한 벌 안 사던 깍쟁이

평생 잡은 낙지 혼 들러붙어

바닥에서 떼기 힘들어진 다리 끌고

오일장 옷가게 기웃거리더니

작은 보따리 하나 들고 왔다

고향 떠나 시집가던 날처럼

다음 생은 저렇게 곱고 싶다는 듯

녹의홍상에 족두리 갖춘 수의

달랑 한 벌

새 생은 저만큼 가벼웠으면

 

-김청미 시집 "청미 처방전" (2018)