Three (part 1)

by Dora Gospodinova

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Three

1

She is as beautiful as a fable

with an imponderable rhyme

her species is rare

birdlike

with a secret green name

she is wonderfully out of place

impermanent

         and

            illogical

always interesting

final and

          different

she slips between the fingers

between the lips and the seasons

she treads with a quarter of presence

a ray sneaks its way into the branches

she is

      as beautiful as a fable

               extravagantly fleeting

one cannot count on her

how splendid

that she is there


translator: Apostol Dimitrov