A Dream Far Away
Güven TURAN
A DREAM FAR AWAY
On the plains behind
the cliff
An unsheltering wind
Uproots the shrubs
Gives way to cane beds
Even in mid summer
Seagulls
Descend south to hunt
Without planting
a tree
I can leave my body and go
Near one of the traps I've set
On the third day the moss hides
Within forty days the ice petrifies
To get so attached
to a dream
To augment the saddening wastes of the city
When even her picture has decayed on my table
Before a new thunderstorm
starts
One should pull the boat ashore
Translated
by Suat Karantay