Cat Was Its Name by Özdemir Asaf

Nobody
gave it a name
They called–it was deaf, it did not hear

The murmuring of a cat
Is both its thinking
And
Its hearing

I’m writing
This
Which is
My murmuring

One who hears
Wouldn’t write this
Wake up
It was a cat who wrote this.

translated by Ayşe Banu Karadağ