Jetze de Vries was RIXT Poet of the Month for October 2022. You can read his original Frisian poems from that month here. The translation of one of them – ‘Lot’ – is published below.
Lot before dawn the man closed the door of his home softly drove for hours, looked in mirrors clouds gathered like smoke the sound was closing in a monstrous insect across the mountain ridge the land of the free did not come into view © Jetze de Vries translation: Trevor Scarse