I’m back at home. The bread is thawing beside the stove. I pick up the loaf and press it against the blade of the bread slicer. The machine groans, then packs up completely. No chance of cutting a slice off the ...
Through the Moors, Through Dachau by Michaela Maria Müller
LAR Online, Translations
[I will load the conchs]
I will load the conchs
onto the backs of swans.
And almighty light
I will sort your signs
as if black lentils, without
defacing the manuscript signed
by the waves.
[Je chargerai ...
Four Poems by Khal Torabully
LAR Online, Translations
Summer Evening
See far, very far, there above the last Red!
There over the Forest, the blackish Walls. One
Water still gleams white. Silence lives there,
Keeping-Secret and Cooling ...
Two poems by Johannes Bobrowski
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Sea Poems: #3
Silence was a bouquet of roses
in my throat.
The song of the seashore
was the breeze from my kiss and your open eyelids.
Over the waters, the wind bird
was unsettled among the nest of ...
Two Poems by Yadollah Royai
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Second Eclogue
The storm is forming underground,
advancing toward the village like a reptile
changing its colors, camouflaged among patches
of leaves, cement, and lost footsteps.
Moments before it ...
Three Poems by Gemma Gorga
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Translation by Don Schofield
Raffaello Ceccoli’s Icon, 1853
My father liked the icon
in the monastery because Ceccoli
portrayed his dead daughter as the Virgin.
I was alive and he
was not a ...
Four Poems by Liana Sakelliou
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Translated by Ljubica Arsovska and Patricia Marsh
Hump
In front of me a man is pushing
a barrow full of empty plastic bottles.
The path is narrow, I can’t overtake him.
I follow him, watch ...
Three Poems by Lidija Dimkovska
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Translated by Cady Vishnaic
Translator’s Note
It’s easy to interpret this story of family abandonment as a thinly veiled account of Yente Serdatsky’s own abandonment (and later reconciliation) with her husband ...
Without a Place by Yente Serdatsky
LAR Online, Translations
Translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul
watch the earth through lenses
cut on distant planets,
lost from a massive freighter
during a flyover, unnoticed
by all earthly monitors, perhaps a hatch
or double door left ...
Two Poems by Carl-Christian Elze
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
