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Translations

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Translations

Klobasu becomes kolbasi,
prilohy becomes pirogi,
ja vas lubim becomes
what? pure love?

Your name
was the first thing
to change: perhaps the new one
was given to you

at Ellis Island, by a man
whom you had never seen
before, would never
see again.

I want to give you back
your name. I want
to go out into the fields
and call to your innocence

among the cows, among
the clouds: Andrej! Andrej!

Susan Casey
Seattle