Ô TOURMENTS...
Ô tourments plus forts de n\'être qu\'une seule apparence
Angoisse des fuyantes créations
Prière du désert humilié
Les tempêtes battent en vain vos nuques bleues
Vous possédez l\'éternelle dureté des rocs
Et les adorables épées du silence ont enfin défié vos feux noirs
N-am trecut nimic cu vederea
Cortina arde si tu-mi rasari pe obraz incatusat de gheturi.
Nici agonie, nici nastere, nici viata nu ti-o cunosc,
nici urechea prin care-ti intra ale lumii tipete toate,
nici scafandrii scotocindu-ti adancurile copilariei.
N-ai stiut sa te inchini spaimei si-ai ascuns lamentatia
lumii viitoare, ai cautat disperat ironia defunctilor
prin maruntaiele fiecarei clipe, tradandu-te - somnul
iti seamana cu tarfa imbracata in rochie de mireasa.
Fear
Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive.
Fear of falling asleep at night.
Fear of not falling asleep.
Fear of the past rising up.
Fear of the present taking flight.
Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night.
Fear of electrical storms.
Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek!
Scânteieri din umbră (fragmente)
II
biciuiți de cravașa vântului
arborii plâng
despletind argintul fulgilor
pe brațele nopții
prin haiducia
Aquarius
The slow clock whorls of snails
mark time here; such calendars
patterned earlier dark ooze
into reluctant longitudes.
Fluted they give lipservice
over sand and slime,