# Sular Çekilince

*Nedim Aksoy*

> Translated from Turkish into English.


## CH02 — İki — Dönüş

By the time I came back to the harbour forty years had passed, and the pier was still there.

It was shorter. Or I had grown.

"Demir's boy," someone said behind me. I did not turn around.

The waters had drawn back again. I did not count the stones.

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