from A Poem in the Manner of Karacaoğlan by Melih Cevdet Anday: XI

In order to find their voices,
Birds race through the garden.
I have seen so many places,
I ache inside to forget them.

translated by Sidney Wade & Efe Murad

**Karacaoğlan was a 17th Century Anatolian folk poet.

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