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  • 标题:Flashback 2.
  • 作者:Lleshanaku, Luljeta
  • 期刊名称:Witness
  • 印刷版ISSN:0891-1371
  • 出版年度:2010
  • 期号:January
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Witness
  • 摘要:
     Flashback 2     In the heart of November, the cold wind blowing    as at the end of days, snow and my mother's face    wait in the backseat to test out    their philosophy of inevitability.    Lightbulbs, like a row of ants, lead    to the dining room. I am the bride    at the end of the ceremony. And when I get ready to sleep,    carefully removing twenty-one pins from my hair,    as many as the years behind me,    I barely know anything about life    but I do know that when turning a corner    even headlights are worthless.     I try to hide my happiness,    an orange dressed in white fuzz.    I emerge cunningly from my genetic prophecy    as one leaves a cave eroded by loneliness    hidden inside the largest ram's belly.     If I attempt to draw the curtain a little away    with two well-manicured fingertips    two shadows will pass by in harmony on the black asphalt    the musician and the cello after the concert--    the man and the woman who defied predictability. 

Flashback 2.


Lleshanaku, Luljeta


Flashback 2

   In the heart of November, the cold wind blowing
   as at the end of days, snow and my mother's face
   wait in the backseat to test out
   their philosophy of inevitability.
   Lightbulbs, like a row of ants, lead
   to the dining room. I am the bride
   at the end of the ceremony. And when I get ready to sleep,
   carefully removing twenty-one pins from my hair,
   as many as the years behind me,
   I barely know anything about life
   but I do know that when turning a corner
   even headlights are worthless.

   I try to hide my happiness,
   an orange dressed in white fuzz.
   I emerge cunningly from my genetic prophecy
   as one leaves a cave eroded by loneliness
   hidden inside the largest ram's belly.

   If I attempt to draw the curtain a little away
   with two well-manicured fingertips
   two shadows will pass by in harmony on the black asphalt
   the musician and the cello after the concert--
   the man and the woman who defied predictability.


Translated from the Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

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