Mommy's Expansion

She’s a white rabbit buried in snow

White sheets white pillows nice nightie my mommy

White rabbit lying still under the snow with its paws crossed

Her ears that don’t listen to anything have grown up

When I go near them, they become filthy clouds

Like falling snowflakes

like fog on the river

Mommy’s a bunny that can’t be held

Human vegetable—is this term meant to insult or praise plants?

Mommy walks the hospital hallway filled with the souls of human vegetables

Long, long ago there lived a genius girl

She grew old and turned into a white bunny in her bed

What’s your name? I forgot, she can barely speak

She became disabled and snow-white, growing wider and wider

What will we become after we grow up fierce?

We pull out the whitest-white bunny from under the blanket and shake it

Notes:

Read the Korean-language version, "엄마의 팽창."