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“Fall emotion”
by NICHITA STANESCU
Fall has come, cover my heart with some thing,
with the shade of a tree, or better, your shade bring.
I’m scared that I’m not gonna see you, sometimes
that I will grow wings pointing towards the clouds,
that you will take refuge in a foreign eye,
and with wormwood leaf it will close you from sight.
And then I approach stones and I keep silent
I take the words into the sea to shove
I whistle at the moon and rise it and turn it
into a great love.
October 30, 2009
“Emotie de toamna”
de NICHITA STANESCU
translated from Romanian by Lori Tiron-Pandit
A venit toamna, acopera-mi inima cu ceva,
cu umbra unui copac sau mai bine cu umbra ta.
Mă tem ca n-am să te mai vad, uneori,
ca or să-mi creasca aripi ascutite pana la nori,
ca ai să te ascunzi intr-un ochi strain,
si el o să se-nchida cu o frunza de pelin.
Si-atunci mă apropii de pietre si tac,
iau cuvintele si le-nec în mare.
Suier luna si o rasar si o prefac
intr-o dragoste mare.
