Wednesday, June 24
TRANSLATION
Where there is no “we”
we are
sometimes lip to lip
sometimes apart
sometimes eye to eye
sometimes tongue-tied
lost in the vague geography of words
where we find ourselves again
you, my voice
I, your heartbeat
us, nomads of our mother tongue
in another tongue.
(Fatemeh Shams,
translated from Persian by Armen Davoudian)