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 46!
when I stand facing the sun
I throw three shadows
one of a man
one of a woman
one of a child
when I look back - I don’t see them
when I look ahead - I don’t see them
when I look around - they are not there
at night I dream of all three
and we always tell each other something
Author: Galina Nikolova
Translated from Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Galina Nikolova is the author of a three books of poetry, most recently Alphabet of Returning (Sofia:Poetiki, 2013). She lives and works in Sofia.