Beste hizkuntzetako lanen zerrenda

 

  Translation: Sarah J. Turtle &
    Iņaki Mendiguren

 

 

Cherry trees in flower

 

She tells me she wants to return to her native land

to silence her childish tears,

to see the cherry trees in flower

before May is out.

 

In time streets and ideas

have gone wrong for her,

she no longer finds her breath

in the place where she left it.

 

Loneliness, she says, walks along winter streets

in a thick coat,

she says there are houses that

only open their doors

to let in the cold from outside.

 

She says days break up in her hands,

and that each night she dresses like the recently deceased,

because she is ashamed to die naked in bed.

 

May is nearly out,

she has put sun-warmed stones in her pocket.

She tells me she wants to return to her native land

to silence her childish tears.

 

 

© Leire Bilbao
© of the translation: Sarah J. Turtle & Iņaki Mendiguren

 


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