The child's roughly used clothes Poem by Maya Sarishvili

The child's roughly used clothes



The child's roughly used clothes.
Yes, that's what let me recognize clarity.
I shall come here, I said,
And silently they dropped me off there.
The things took off their headscarf,
So that I could see how big the ears had grown. Words I had heard
Were watching from there
And I recognized the room, too . . .
Two opaque children
Came up to my bed.

Translation: 2007, Donald Rayfield

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