Deniz Perin 

Translator

Slowly resemble a courtyard
It's better this way

Nurture a coolness in your mouth
Study the language of windows

Comprehension's roof is leaking, look, in every house
Unravel my writing
Rearrange all the sounds

Who taught us these sounds anyway
Who drew the sky

If you go, distant cities will smear onto my face
If you speak, my silence onto water

Lift the night off you
It's better this way

Save a dream for your flesh
Dissolve into the void of words

Save me the statue of your feet
Save me that shy flower in your pot

I, who am oppressed by the whiteness of a page
The solitude of mute houses on my face

Wherever I look, this garden's mess
If only I could pass through you
My sorrow's carriage, its limping pace

Save me the awareness
Of this wound, our mortality

I, who am the birds' migration time
The vicious snake you've been feeding

Oh, the spacious calm of unknowing

The wind brought fear
Set it between us, just like that

Break through the silent and start again