Cleaning Lentils

     A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a stone.

     A green one, a black one, a green one , a stone,

     A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a word.

     Suddenly a word, a lentil, a lentil,a word

     next to another word. A word, a word, a word,

     a speech. A word of nonsense.

     Suddenly a song. A song, a song, suddenly

     an old dream. A green,a green one, a black one

     a stone. A lentil,a lentil,a lentil,a stone.

     Zahrad 

     (translated from Armenian by Diana Der-Hovanessian)