THE STARS

You take them all one by one. You bring them down from the sky.
You shine them
With alkaline water and zygomatic hands on the sheet sleep again forgot
To sleep It’ll rest quietly
You tie them with invisible stripes Elongation in thread and time
Expired
Long ago and much looked on
You give them the impetus of a sceptre or a cane. The descent will be easier
From the outer height ⎯ Outline. You fasten them on the jewel-cum-neck
And whilst you are depicting a pendulum at the world’s right angle
Everyone will look at a vertical beam and from below one last thought
On top of your skull
The head, the moon of a green boy And all the more it’ll drip reflection and reason
There the gods’ satiety takes place in
Breath and earthly thought
Two
Oxygen
Water
And

***

BE

Be animated
By a breath
And let yourself be
Like an ostrich
Its entire length
Bending
On the ground
And
With kneaded
Nails
Dig
In the cyclothymic
Mines
Of an absolution
That will be
Rendered
In time
And
Within
You’ll
Breathe.

*Τα ποιήματα προέρχονται από τη συλλογή “ακρογωνιαία πορεία στο και”, εκδόσεις ΣΑΙΞΠΗΡΙΚόΝ, Θεσσαλονίκη 2012. Μετάφραση στην Αγγλική: Γιάννης Γκούμας.