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