Just as This Island Belongs to the Gulls . . .

Just as this island belongs to the gulls,
and the gulls to their cry
and their cry to the wind
and the wind to no one,

so is this island the gulls,
and the gulls are their cry
and their cry is the wind
and the wind no one's.

Herman de Coninck
Translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
and Kurt Brown
Harvard Review
Number 30, 2006

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of Harvard College
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