TWO POEMS

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TWO POEMS


CORRESPONDENCE

 

Translation: Vasilis Moschovos


 

I don’t want to write you on this inelegant

Garamond 12” screen. This is what I am.

So little.

I want to send you those air-mail enve-

lopes

blue-white stripe like a lapel all around.

To brush my tongue on the gum, to

crimp

the paper from the sweetness, a small tattoo upon the lips

that took the permanent shape of your name.

I am unwritten like a blank slate. I fill myself with

words.

How many words to cover

the heartless distance between us?

And when you’ll take in your hands

this antiquated letter,

I will know that your palms will be sealing

my faint fingerprints.

I don't want them to be obvious,

to offer my surrender so easily.

I will then peel myself the few pretexts.

Will I scare you?


My dragons are in the box with my children’s

toys.

One blow and to little

pieces, light blue, red lego.

And that scar on the brow of my left nipple

I lied to you, one little white lie,

is the spending of an antediluvian wound

which does not work anymore from the inside.


Touch the paper, put it in your pocket,

crumble it,

so that I can feel the sweat wetting your palm

place it casually on your hair

which I want to comb now with my fingers

to live of their silks.

In this moment we are still young,

unwrinkled our “I adore you”’s, my beloved,

we burn and become at the same time

fresh in the mayhem.

Keep my letters,

in the black box of your memory.


Keep me, for I am naked and innocent.




Vacations

 

Translation: Claire Papamichael

 

 Every day I yearn for

the taste of your body.

Every breath of mine looks for a den

in the thicket of your neck.

I offer all my “I love you”’s as offerings

to your fleshy lips.


My dusty desk,

the unborn child’s despair,

the luggage at the emergency exit

dim at the glade of your embrace.


How can I not love you?

It’s the only way

to exist


Anymore.





 
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