Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Zahrad: "Cleaning Lentils"















A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a stone.
A green one, a black one, a green one, a stone.
A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a word.
Suddenly a word, a lentil, a lentil, a word
next to another word. A word, a word, a word,
a speech. A word of nonsense.
Suddenly a song. A song, a song, suddenly
an old dream. A green, a green one, a black one
a stone.  A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a stone.



"Cleaning Lentils" by Zahrad, translated from Armenian by Diana Der-Hovanessian. Published in the Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris. © Ecco, 2010.

Photography credit: Yotam Ottolenghi (originally color).


 

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