In the Street by Oktat Rıfat

While the horse dealer
Looks at the teeth of the old horse
He thinks of parched meadows
Turned yellow in death’s wind
His woman neighbor
Rubs her copper buckets with lemon peel and ash
The first gleam of copper shows through
Children play knucklebones in the street
With the whitish sheepbones
Who knows from which herd.

translated by Ruth Christie & Richard McKane

4 thoughts on “In the Street by Oktat Rıfat

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.