Christian Filips

Flash now. This is
Momma´s hand, how she knots!-

How to knot she teaches me
wants to teach him: she
sits in front of her son
ties the laces,
                             so, both hands
hands both anticlockwise in the loop
does she
             -which way? this way? shoehorn-style

even herself know how, no, this way!
                                   not any further-

oh, mirror-inverted,
                                   Mother of God!
Soon we tie him
Soon he ties us

Khai le, hei hi
I nu kut a ni, a suih thiam zia hi! –

A suih dan tur min zirtir
Suih dan a fapa a zirtir duh:
a fapa hma ah thuin
a pheikhawk hrui a suih sak a
         a kut pahnih chu hmangin
sana vir loh lam zawngin
a han suih a
-    Eng tin nge tih tur le? Ti hian em ni’ang? Shoehorn 
         kha hmang rawh le
han ti ve chin vat teh, ni lo, kha ti lo khan!
ti khan a ni lo-

a dik lo zawng a nih kha
            Awi ka rei!
Kan suih rual in
Min suih ve nghal 

Translated into Mizo by Dawngi Chawngthu 

Pheikhawk-Hrui Var

En teh, Hei
Ka nu kut in, a suih dan hi!
Ka suih ve dan tur min zirtir
A zirtir duh in: Nu chuan
A fapa hmaah thu in 
a suih sak a
A kut pahnih 
Mahse a pahnih chu a letling zawnga lang ni si
Tih hria in
engtin nge ni ang? Ti hian? A rawlh luhna kha hmang rawh 
Nangmah in le, ni lo, ti hian!
Ti lo khan-
A letling zawk khan
Aw Lalpa!
Kan suih ta!
Min suih ta! 

Translated into Mizo by Lalnunsanga Ralte 

blyksnis – štai –
mamos ranka, dabar ji riša! –

Ji moko mane raišioti:
nori sūnų išmokyti –
sėdi priešais jį
ir riša raištelį,
                                taip, rankos abejos
abejas rankas kairėn kilpon
ji žino
              – čia taip? o čia šitaip? painiava
ne, ne taip!
                                                    gana –

ak, viskas kaip veidrodyje,

                                Mergelele Švenčiausioji,
                                Motina Dievo! –

tuoj mes jį surišime,
tuoj jis mus.