Orpheus Comes Back

The sand flows through hourglasses

Or our blood to the gentle shimmering

Of pearl, in the twilight of the heart

Enveloping the eternally open eye. Shut up…

Where the waters have passed, they will pass again –

Orpheus comes back.

 

On the old traces, snowed

By an endless silence

While

The cherries were blizzarde by white…

And stretch over the darkness

Euridice’s eyelids.

 

Iosif Caraiman, Se-ntoarce Orfeu

translated from Romanian by Marcel Rus

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