issue 34 > poetry > cabral
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Obstacle
by Astrid Cabral. Translated by Alexis Levitin.
Because of poetry
beans burn
milk spills
change is forgotten
clothes go inside out
the baby cries in hunger
one misses the train.
But on one goes.
Who knows where,
to what anonymous cloud.
Also by Astrid Cabral and Alexis Levitin:
Envying Vishnu
Cross-eyed Ways