Patrizia Gattaceca’s poem ‘Sò chjari i purtelli’ with translations into English and Frisian
Patrizia Gatteca here reads her poem in Corsican and Tsead Bruinja reads the Frisian translation. This clip was filmed during the LAF/Center for Slovenian Literature translation workshop for poets writing in minority languages in Dane Slovenia, June 2013.
Corsican Original:
Sò chjari i purtelli
I so vetri d’acqua
Ci lacanu ciuttà
Soli sunniati
M’arrimbu à sente l’estate
Mentr’ellu dorme chetu
U tempu sottu à e cennere.
English working translation:
Clear windows
Are liquid glass
Where sun
dreams dive
I bow to breathe the summer
as time sleeps peacefully
in the ashes.
Frisian translation:
De ruten binne skjin
wetterglêzen
litte sinne
dreamen dûke
Ik bûg om simmer yn my op te nimmen
wylst sy fredich sliept
yn `e jiske.