Maria-Mercè Marçal
«For you, I would like to take the road to Lilliput…»
For you, I would like
to take the road to Lilliput,
my saddle-bags full
of lawless songs,
and reach the field
where chance is a king
without any clothes
who’ll sell his sword
to vice or to virtue.
Translated by Christopher Whyte
Maria-Mercè Marçal, «For you, I would like to take the road to Lilliput…». Chapman [Edimburg], núm. 88 (1997), p. 29.