Rúfus, Milan: Mother (Matka in English)
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Matka (Slovak)Po strmých schodoch do neba
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Mother (English)Up the steep steps to heaven
climb the mothers. One hand in the bread-dough, the other always lighting a candle under the nose of their youngest. And after everything, when they’ve become no more than a cloak of memories thrown for departure over the shoulders of loneliness - always still mothers but long since not women – they caress the shirt of their grown sad children as passionately as in ballads a girl caresses her lover beheaded by the blank sword...
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