Joana Raspall

katalonščina

Jacob Rhodes

angleščina

L'estel bellugadís

Dins de l’aigua de l’estany
un estel fa pampallugues
com si es volgués esborrar.
És que el vent hi pren un bany;
quant l’aigua no faci arrugues
el podrem veure ben clar.

© Hereus Joana Raspall C.B.
Iz: El meu món de poesia
Vilanova i la Geltrú: El cep i la nansa, 2011
Avdio produkcija: El cep i la nansa

The Shimmering Star

In the waters of a lake
a star is blinking freely
as if itself it wants to erase.
But it’s just a bath the wind has come to take;
we will see it nice and clearly
when the water relaxes her wrinkled face.

Translated by Jacob Rhodes