Itkevä lintu [English translation]

Bring me back

Place your arm through many layers

all the way to my skin

Wait there

Listen how at the back of the yard

a bird wails

Let it get used to your weight

And if you see wounds

Close them tightly

Force me to remember

how easy it is to talk

Force me to remember

how easy it is to sing

Grass shoots up cautiously

A fox kit opens its eyes slowly

Wait still

Listen how, under the breastbone,

the rhythm changes

When it dawns

lay your back against the ground

and I’ll come back to you

Force me to remember

how easy it is to talk

Force me to remember

how easy it is to sing

Grass shoots up cautiously

A fox kit opens its eyes slowly

Force me to remember

how easy it is to talk

Force me to remember

how easy it is to sing

Grass shoots up cautiously

A fox kit opens its eyes slowly