Saludos de fin de año, Leonor Scliar- Cabral

       Feliz 2011!

Happy New Year!

Bonne année!

Feliz Año Nuevo!

Leonor Scliar-Cabral

Florianópolis, Brasil 

                                                                          GUIMEL

Ultrapassas as portas, as fronteiras                  You go through doorways and you cross frontiers

no lombo do camelo. Inconformada                astride a camel’s back. Dissatisfied,

ou perseguida, irrompes transformada,              harassed, you burst forth in a new-made guise,

cruzando o Mare Nostrum, companheira         and cross the Mare Nostrum without fears,

de outras letras, fiel, a hospedeira.                  friend, host to letters of another kind.

(Scliar-Cabral, L.)                                                 (English translation: Levitin, A.)