Tsjisse Hettema was the RIXT poet of the month February 2021. You can read his original Frisian poems of that month here. The translation of one of them – ‘the light and the wind’ – is published here.
the light and the wind dance around the house at the edge of the cliff something shifts from black to grey in me I too would like to dance there to keep me like a tearaway maybe in check the exuberance of colour the space of the house the stairs that lead up from my head the cliff holds everything surprisingly tight together it leashed me against its side which means I’m looking for the narrow path that slowly upwards pulls my head down © Tsjisse Hettema Translation: Trevor Scarse