Carta a l'exili [English translation]

Now you write to me way more often

and the message is always sad

I feel how those mornings go away

[the mornings] which brought your letters to me

if you want to write a birds' song

among your letters1

I get a handkerchief

soaked with absence tears

we are going to write you all the world

we will put flowers in the envelope

a bit of lavender and fennel

three white daisies

a sip of sea and a piece of sky

a trees' trembling

a misery, some memories

all the ones that you had left me

a sip of sea and a piece of sky

a trees' trembling

a misery, we do know

what we can give to you

1. This time, letters as in characters, not as in a missives.

• Artist:Maria del Mar Bonet
• Album:Gavines i dragons (1987)