Angle
translated from the Romanian by Seamus Heaney
Overhead, the traditional lines
Of cranes:
Sonnets for countrymen.
Excerpted from The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney and edited by Marco Sonzogni. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 2022 by The Estate of Seamus Heaney. Introduction and editorial material copyright © 2022. All rights reserved.