Laura Gilpin: Two-Headed Calf/Dvoglavo tele

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.

Sutra kad momci s farme zateknu
tu nakazu, zamotat će mu tijelo
u novinski papir i odnijeti ga u muzej.

Ali noćas je živ i na sjevernom je
polju s majkom. Savršena je
ljetna večer: mjesec se uzdiže
nad voćnjakom, vjetrić u travi. A
kad se zagleda u nebo, gore je
dvostruko više zvijezda nego inače.