Tsead Bruinja

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Original language

GOOSE

hare in the field thinks
the hare is all finished
the hare is all gone like
geese flying over winter

hunters’ eyes say summer
and the hunter is all finished
the hunter is all
gone like summer

the hunter is all green
the hare in the hunter calls
and the hare is all finished

the field in the field thinks shot
and the field is all finished

most of all the hare is finished
in the field and in the hunter

Translated from the poet’s Dutch translation

GUOZ

hazze yn it fjild tinkt
alles oan de hazze is op
alles oan de hazze is lykas
winter oerfleanende guozzen

jagers eagen sizze simmer
en alles oan de jager is op
alles oan de jager is
fuortflein lykas dy simmer

alles oan de jager is grien
de hazze yn de jager ropt
en alles oan de hazze is op

it fjild yn it fjild tinkt skot
en alles oan it fjild is op

fral de hazze is op
yn it fjild en yn de jager

Tsead Bruinja

(The Netherlands, 1974)

Tsead Bruinja is a poet unafraid of delving into the alternative, the small and the unknown. For instance, Bruinja’s debut collection was written in Frisian: De wizers yn it read (The meters in the red) appeared in 2000, with little worry over the relatively small number of the language’s readers. From 2003 onward, however, after publishing Dat het zo hoorde (The way it should sound), he began ...