(46/365) Poem by Galina Nikolova

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.

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