This poem is taken from PN Review 278, Volume 50 Number 6, July - August 2024.
from Like the Night Inside the EyesTranslated by Robin Myers
My sister and I scattered the ashes in
Bariloche. We climbed the slope with the
box in a backpack. It rattled like wood and
gravel. There were lakes everywhere. The
mountains beyond. Then the wind came.
Most of them landed in a treetop. Then we
took the ski lift down, ate chocolate.
Sometimes joy and pain arrive together. I
open the Iliad, see poplars and poppies. A
woman shoos a fly as her son sleeps
Someone looks up at the stars. After nine
years of war, glimmers of a life everyone
wants back. This is my dad in the crown of
a pine as the force of the wind bears some
of him out to the lakes and stones.
as when the south
...
Bariloche. We climbed the slope with the
box in a backpack. It rattled like wood and
gravel. There were lakes everywhere. The
mountains beyond. Then the wind came.
Most of them landed in a treetop. Then we
took the ski lift down, ate chocolate.
Sometimes joy and pain arrive together. I
open the Iliad, see poplars and poppies. A
woman shoos a fly as her son sleeps
Someone looks up at the stars. After nine
years of war, glimmers of a life everyone
wants back. This is my dad in the crown of
a pine as the force of the wind bears some
of him out to the lakes and stones.
as when the south
...
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