A Poem by / Cerdd gan Hildred Crill

Translated by  / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd 

Of Luring

Musée de la chasse et de la nature Exhibit of notes frozen in a cabinet, chess pieces like throats, unexpected planes of solids, little instruments untouched, pan pipes that are waiting for a signal, voices lined up to inspect, calls and flutes lured and left, flush from cover, mimic and coax hand- crafted. The inventory of old growth, strips and nuggets from a cherry tree they once nested in now lathed and polished. The spiral of a snail shell to direct the waves, magnify a song. Hollow in this olive stone dug out for a creature’s cry.

Denu

Musée de la chasse et de la nature Arddangosyn o nodiadau wedi’u rhewi mewn cabinet, darnau gwyddbwyll fel gyddfau, haenau annisgwyl o bethau solet, offerynnau bach heb eu cyffwrdd, pibellau padell yn aros am arwydd, lleisiau wedi’u trefnu i’w harchwilio, galwadau a ffliwtiau wedi’u denu yma a gadael, wedi’u gwasgu allan, eu dynwared, eu cymell â chrefft llaw. Rhestr eiddo hen dyfiant, stribedi a chlapiau o goeden geirios lle buont unwaith yn nythu bellach yn sgleiniog, ddisglair. Troell cragen malwen i roi cyfarwyddiadau i donnau, tyfu cân. Pant yn y garreg olewydd hon a naddwyd i greu lle i gri creadur.

Hildred Crill is a poet and translator living in Stockholm, Sweden, where she taught scientific writing for 16 years at Stockholm University. Her poems have appeared most recently in 14 Magazine, Long Poem Magazine, The North, The Moth, Ambit, among other journals.