Octavian DOCLIN
ASH
Far beyond ashes there is ash.
Grown old I reach the sky with my hand.
Ever more often do I dream the poem with no rules.
Philosophy has fallen asleep on my arms.
Nothing dies away at all. I walk on.
In the basic word stock. There,
Near its end. The children are out.
I fall asleep near you. Sometimes I, too, pass away.
THE SMELL OF ASHES
You told me to stay with you
because an evening was to come brighter
than the ray of phosphor of the rotten wood¾
The hope and the fear of the man lost in the forest
at night.
I stayed and we began talking
About the flame of the snow
pulled out along with mother’s hair.
Nothing easier to bear in mind
but the smell of ashes, I said to myself,
leaving you.
GRANDMOTHER
She waves to me in front of the door.
She knocks and knocks. Life no longer opens.
BUT ONLY BETWEEN THE WALL OF CORK
I your son fond of you
My mother younger than myself
Give me life once again so that I may know
That only in death can I be still alive
And please do not suckle me without limit
And instead of breasts give me the word
And do not wrap me in swaddling bands please
But in an carpet of snow
And throw me out through the window
Down where hungry the poem waits
Thus, really, between the walls of cork
I your son will love you
O, my mother younger than myself
MINIMAL POEM
I, too, saw it. The Other Life.
For one moment. The kid woke up inside me.
I did not make a halt. We both, of course.
Made a world.
As the lightning did the mineral flower.
THE MEMORY OF THE ANXIETY
Crafty, histrionic lecherous
it broke the bone of my forehead into bones
naked liquid women kept dancing with sensual pleasure on the walls
with frozen eyes I stared at them as if through some field glasses
blue flames turned my eyelids to ashes
my body endlessly floated in the smoke grave
defeated I tried to make you a sign of victory
before Christ in the new memory.
MINIMAL POEM
Between life and death
The warm snow
Like a smooth line
Of smoke.
Like a floating line
Of fog
Similar to the broken line
Of ash.
Traduceri de Olimpia IACOB
