ERGİN GÜNÇE
 

BECAUSE LOVE IS OUR LESSON, SO I HAD SAID

Love is our lesson, the themes are banditry and blondness
If I were to run right now, I'd come out in the Mediterranean
I'd pass by the nomads and camels
grapes figs and tobacco grapes figs and tobacco
because love is our lesson, so I had said
I sit down and light a cigarette from the sun

I had offered up a votive cock when I was eighteen
people shirked from killing it then for some reason
These days even my life is shortening considerably

Love is our lesson, the themes are shotguns and powder
No doubt our mother has saved us up in a rose
School is over and military service too, We got married soon after
We domesticated a dog and starling in the garden
On the sheets dry red pepper and soup curds
Because love is our lesson, so I had said
We sat up our last night on the balcony eating black cherries and how we laughed

One or two cranes fly past in the Milky Sky
I cough and walk on an afternoon path
My shadow stick and goats follow me

Translated by Gürdal Yurdal - Michaels and Richard McKane
 
 

MY PARIS DECLARATION

A FLOWER MUCH AS TURKEY
 
 

ANA SAYFAYA - BACK