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k.169 Máire Mhac an tSaoi 1922 – 2021

Posted by ancroiait on October 19, 2021
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Saoi

Ina guth féin

Dán léi

Feabhra

Le dhá lá nó le trí do bhog an uain,
Do ghabhas an t-aer mar fhallaing ar mo chorp—
Milis, a Dhé, rómhilis an séasúr!
Leachta gach cruaidh; ní buan ann oighear ná toil.

Dall agus bodhar, a dhaoine romham sa tslí
Ná cífidh an t-earrach ghabh trím ina cheatha
Sciúrtha mar phrás a nitear, ná hairíonn
San aer im thimpeall tinneall sreanga teanna.

Aibigh, a mhian, i ndiamhaireacht na gile,
Ar bior le tuiscint aonraic ar an ndúil;
I gcoim na mire fite mar a bhfuilir
Dulta ó aithint súl, bí teann, a rún.


February

The weather softened in the last few days.
I took the air for raiment.
Sweet, Jesus, honey sweet the season!
Rocks melt. Nor ice nor reason hold.

You’re blind and deaf, you people who pass by
And will not see spring pierce me with bright showers
Of gleaming brass, and will not hear
Around me, quivering strings.

Quicken, love, in darknesses of light,
Sharp with desire,
Delirious, and out of ken of kin,
Stand firm, my soul, hold tight.

–Màire Mhac an tSaoi, translated by Biddy Jenkinson, from The Miraculous Parish (2014)

Guth na linne seo. Guth na mban. Thug sí le fios dúinn nach raibh mná dofheicthe.

Caithfidh go raibh sé deacair na geataí sin a oscailt. Fíorbhuíoch go ndearna sí é.

Máire, Saoi.

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