DIGITAL CONTEMPORANEITY
Jungmin Bae
when the green light across the bay
is a pixelated indication that she’s online
and thus imminently fuckable, à la Gatsby
when tumblr posts have replaced
poetry and streamlined the mind
observing the tradition of the demarcated
0s and ones that meekly blip
racing along the transistors
and decrying transience
and when hyperlinks underlined blue
take us on these recursive journeys
hopping from one URL to another:
again, &
again, &
again, &
Jungmin Bae is a senior in the international course at Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies. She writes in both Korean and English and is inspired by the interplays between human and machine, immigrant stories, and brilliant ephemera. Her speculative fiction has been recognized by the OddContest at Odyssey Con and her dual-language poetry has been published in Aerie International. She is founder and editor of her school’s literary magazine, Mirinae, and runs an Instagram poetry account at @jungmin_instapoetry. She currently resides in South Korea.