Nevermore PETS/ANIMALS she sends out a distress

she sends out a distress beacon

sounds and silences of the Sri Lankan landscape

Though much has been written on Saint John of the Cross

and what every one of us can and must do about it

Nevermore PETS/ANIMALS she sends out a distressA meditation on loss and recovery through the act of translation and its recuperative powers. An unnamed translator mourning the loss of a close friend retreats to Dresden to translate the "Time Passes" section of Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse. Translating this lyrical evocation of time and its devastations in a city with which the writer has no connections and where neither her language nor Woolf's are spoken offers an interruption to the