FAZIL HÜSNÜ DAGLARCA
Seçme Siirler * Selected Poems
< i
Translated by Talat Sait Halman

Dolu Sokak

     Ne korkuyorsun
     Uyanip geceleri
     Ölüm yasayacagini yokedebilir
     Yasadigini degil


Teeming Street

     Why do you wake up
     At night and shudder?
     Death can destroy what you might live,
     Not what you have lived.


"Dolu Sokak" is from SELECTED POEMS OF FAZIL HÜSNÜ DAGLARCA, translated by Talat Sait Halman, © 1969 by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
All rights reserved.