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resurrection

abdulla pashew

translated from the kurdish by alana marie levinson-labrosse
 

from time to time, sadness fills my throat

and pain reaches its limit.

then, i wish to smash my life

like a wine glass against a stone.

but suddenly

the gleam of the thread of a new idea,

imagination's hide and seek,

the ¹ of a blade of grass,

the burst of an infant's laughter,

the figure of beauty,

the ² breasts of an ample woman

compel me

to take wings from happiness,

to beg the heavens

to stretch the bridge of my life so long

i won't be able to cross it, even in a thousand years.

 

9.5.1979

moscow

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