Developing
Today, I photographed only trees
Ten, a hundred, a thousand.
I'll develop them at night
When the soul is a dark room.
Then I'll sort them
According to leaves, according to circles,
According to their shadows.
Oh, how easily
Trees merge one into another!
Look, there's only one left
That one I'll photograph again
And then observe with terror
It resembles me.
Yesterday I photographed only stones
And the last stone
Resembled me
The day before yesterday - chairs -
And the only one left
Resembled me
Everything is so much
Like me...
I'm afraid.
Fear
Wherever I go
I take my body with me,
Because I've nowhere to leave it.
The earth, the sky,
And the water steal it.
In happiness, in love,
In sadness, and in agony,
I must feel my hands and forehead close to me,
I must feel my heart beating
Otherwise I worry.
We tremble, the way we tremble,
For the earth of our body,
Not yet evolved,
From which after every shower
Worms still appear.
trans andrea deletant and brenda walker
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so I see you like marin sorescu. can you find his theater play 'Iona' (Jonah)? it is very powerful. but I think one should really see it on the stage, I did it and it was overwhelming.
i don't know it. i only have sorecu's collection because i found it in a remainder book shop
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