Nemes Nagy Ágnes: Winter trees (Fák in English)
Fák (Hungarian)
Tanulni kell. A téli fákat.
Meg kell tanulni azt a sávot,
És a folyót a fák mögött,
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Winter trees (English)You have to learn. The trees in winter.
As hoarfrost dresses foot, top, centre curtains of white that nothing moves – You have to learn those secret grooves where crystals start to turn to vapour and trees fade over into fog just as bodies flow into memory. And the river behind the trees flapping mute wings of skeins of geese, the blues of blinding ice-white nights in which some hooded objects linger - this is our task: We have to seize the trees' inexplicable deeds. |