Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "spirited"
Birnam Wood in Mediterranean Poetry
"We arrived and the miracle happened.
It was the sea and the wind in the bells.
We came from far, from years
Thirsty as dust, from humble
fishermen’s nets on barren shore."
—José Manuel Cardona, from "Birnam Wood"
Read more on Mediterranean Poetry:
https://www.odyssey.pm/?p=4225
From Birnam Wood, my translation of El Bosque de Birnam by my father José Manuel Cardona, the poet from Ibiza. In a bilingual edition from Salmon Poetry.
It was the sea and the wind in the bells.
We came from far, from years
Thirsty as dust, from humble
fishermen’s nets on barren shore."
—José Manuel Cardona, from "Birnam Wood"
Read more on Mediterranean Poetry:
https://www.odyssey.pm/?p=4225
From Birnam Wood, my translation of El Bosque de Birnam by my father José Manuel Cardona, the poet from Ibiza. In a bilingual edition from Salmon Poetry.
