1. cracks
you sit and wait for the tumor to grow
they’ll cut off your lower lip and you’ll forget how to taste
an apple, a slice of bread, or just the water in which
you drown your worries after you forget to fall asleep
one thing is certain: the walls between rooms must come down
the cracks have grown living things
beauty eats into your body
and dogs come out through the passageway to lick you
they crawl under the fence as if flying
shaken up by a dream that’s not theirs, clung to you -
a flag fluttering in the twilight
the lost strength surrounds the disease like a prey
always drawn farther away
until it soaks in tears
solitude is the wound you slide into
faultless scalpel towards a love
half-crushed by the chaotically grown flesh
2. tsunami
your eyes remained open
in between two flashes of light
you never know when you get hurt more beautifully
when a soul enters you
like a grenade thrown from the trenches
point of return
for the discontinuous line of the body
wrapped up in forgiveness on the sidewalk
the harlot who feels love
for the very first time
her hands glued to her aching hair
a dull pain
cut off for an instant
a body of water suddenly displaced and
you’re ready to go carrying nothing
all that seemed steady moves with your lips
3. the moon chews on your shoulders
when you weep in the distance
the moon chews on your shoulders
you slowly start to forget the remains of the night
outside the dreams
there is no more water
blindness is a softly hummed
love song
when the knees fall asleep
next to the breasts a wish harsher
I buried half the world
into one word, which I laid next to the dried-up
cherry tree
all this despair blooming in your hair
will find me at dawn
swimming in the translucent ground
(poems published in the volume "catacombe. aici totul e viu" ("catacombs. everything is alive here"), Vinea Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008, pp. 35-37. English translation: Simona Sumanaru.)
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