Katerina has taken on the challenge of translating poems from Bulgarian and publishing 365 of them on her blog during 2015! This is post number 31!
Tamara Returned
Tamara returned to the wolves.
The wolves ripped her apart.
Then she went back home –
with tattered clothes,
covered in blood.
She took a long shower and
/with special care not to wake up
her mom and dad/ she prepared for sleep.
For a century-long sleep she prepared.
Author: Kalin Petrov
Translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Kalin Petrov lives in Sliven, Bulgaria. He’s been writing poems since 2007. He’s the author of the poetry book Fantasmophilia (Hermes, 2012).
