Gabriel Jackson Our flags are wafting in hope and grief

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Our flags are wafting in hope and grief, through turmoil we are silent and stern. A moment has come – a moment so brief, perhaps a point of no return. We live with regret, we live with doubt, our roots are tangled and ancient. The timidest heart that never spoke out now breaks into song, impatient. Whatever we had, whatever we lost, whether valued or taken for granted, a voicing of freedom at whatever cost cannot now be recanted. for online perusal only Doris Kareva (b.1958) English translation by Miriam McIlfatrick (b.1961)

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