| KANPOSANTUKO KLUBA | THE GRAVEYARD CLUB |
| Miren Agur Meabe | trans. Brian Cole (from Basque, via Spanish) |
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B.- rekin topo egin dut kanposantuan. Neure adinekoa da, gutxi gorabehera. Orain dela bederatzi urte etortzen naiz, larunbatero - argitu dit -. Semetxoa lotan zegoela hil zitzaidan. Muerte súbita. Fabrikara joanda nengoen ni. Beste semea ohartu zen, zazpi urtekoa, esnatu ezin izan zuenean eskolara joateko. |
I meet B. in the graveyard. She is my age, more or less. I have been coming here for nine years, every Sabbath - she explains -. My little son died in his sleep. A sudden death. I had gone to work at the cannery. My elder son, the seven year old, realised that he could not wake him up to go to school. |
Trans. copyright © Brian Cole 2006