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ELDERS

ELDERS
Elpidio Jenco (1892-1959)

Poem by: Elpidio Jenco
Translated by: Maksim Rakipaj

The elders silently contemplate the west
where, memory of the sun that set
still leaves a little light that shines.

Humidity, the air cools, little by little,
a rain of ash falls from above
after the autumn day and the world darkens.


Hunched old men with eyes looking west.
There's still a little sun! It looks like it's tempting
some head on your ancient trunk.

And a shiver runs through me: it seems to me
as if the night casts a shadow as if afraid
on some limbs where life is ebbing away.