Prayer for winter

These skies are
Monks freezing in solitude

Back and forth
They seem to wander
Homeless

Give these skies
A place
Around the evening fire
So that they can warm themselves

Give them a place

[Lutje dimri, from the volume Festë me ankthin, Elbasan: Onufri, 1997, p. 5, translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie]