Hearken, the rivers won’t be frozen this winter
or nearly any other winter for that matter
this is a milde climate
Don’t uproot the begonias leave them in the gardens of the Gulf Stream
sweet like a nun’s concerne for the world
sweet like a warble of a Bonni’s warbler.
Ivan Blatný (1919 - 1990) Czech Republic
Translated by Matthew Sweeney
Source: Modern Poetry in Translation, New Series No. 17, 2001
Translators' original spelling
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