The Google Translate app allows you to point your camera at text and receive a real-time translation in your chosen language overtop the live image. The app shifts the translation several times, leaving multiple fleeting, often poetic, translations of the text. During a trip to Japan in 2019, Kelsea O’Connor captured images of Japanese text and arranged the resulting series of English translations into found poems. O’Connor is a contributing editor to Geist. She lives in New Westminster. Read more of her work at geist.com.

Two iron tolerance
2 iron lumper 2
Two iron beer 2
Two songs of theory
Boil the black bean
I pick out the child
Boil the hot water
Sand out of shellfish

Pet dog is a corridor. In the largest in the Buddhist
I want to walk, I’m sorry 2
(Do not drive, universal grief)
Pet husband is in the corridor / in the Buddhist
Please cooperate so that you can not walk
(Do not dogs dogs, exclusive advertising excluded)
Pet dog is cockroad. In the Buddhist
Please collaborate so that you can not walk
(Expansion Dog The dogs are excluded)