Squirrel Cake
written by: Kang Yihyun
While eating cake, I spat out a bone. It crackled in my mouth like something fried. Inside the sliced cake, more than half the squirrel still remained. How had I thought of a squirrel. There was no suspicious tail in sight. I have no idea when the cake had become oversized. That was the first time I learned of the existence of squirrel cake. If the squirrel was certain, then the cake could no longer be. For a while after that, I couldn’t bring myself to touch cake. Every time I ran into a squirrel in the park, I felt a trace of guilt. Was it really a squirrel that I had swallowed. It was already too late for doubt to separate us.
Kang Yihyun is a poet based in South Korea. His work has been noted for its lively imagination and its subtle, wistful sensibility, observing life through delicate frictions and shifting perceptual boundaries. Journals such as Eunoia Review have featured the poems.
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