Bread and Stars by Oktay Rıfat

Bread on my knee
Stars in the distance far in the distance
I’m eating bread and looking at the stars
I’m so intensely lost in thought
That by mistake I eat
A star instead of bread

translated by Ruth Christie & Richard McKane

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