I am whispering in your ear:
we are passing, thunderously,
through the tunnel where
this girl was...
we continue past the river and the little wood
(in the summer it adopts a luscious amazonian look)
and further on, the bog which is vast and green
like my eye
this guy was found there, his lungs full of the green...
now there is a bridge like a kitten's back
but very tough, see
you can put your coke-can on the railing while
you watch the water dragging
now here I tell you
a completely different thing happened...
walking at this pace in the same direction
for a very long time
whispering in your delicate ear
about the filthy heart of my reeking suburbs
we shall come to the same point again
Elena Alexieva (born 1975) Bulgaria
Translated by Kapka Kassabova
Source: Slovoto
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