VIVACE MA NON SOLTANTO COSI
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With a bare foot
you are jumping听 from one star to another.
And everything it clinks
like a kiss of crystal glasses.
Thousands of your faces
keep on skating
on the frozen lakes.
I am opening you
with a treble clef
and I am looking for a bow
which could compare you with its flexibility.
Deep in you
instead of springs
I found a tear.
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STROKE
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When the air stops in front of your face
and checks the volume of your lungs,
when the sun asks you with a secret word,
then you鈥檒l understand it.
It is possible to cross the horizon
and think about something else.
The mountains hurry to strip concrete constructions of the hills.
In the crowns of the trees, telephone exchanges are buzzing.
You are an octave higher.
The only rocket
crosses easily the sky with a green light.
So I鈥檓 keeping knowing you
and setting my breath to yours.
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MARRIAGE
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We were two
and only an indefinite number of dawns and twilights
had left from us.
From that day I鈥檓 wandering
the souls of unexisting听 things,
and I鈥檓 keeping stumbling on them.
Everyday I see you past blossoming
in an armful of herbs.
And I鈥檓 trembling
of free running animals.
Everyday I place you to my eyes
like a drawing of a child
and I take my breath away.
Translated by听Monika Majzl谩nov谩
(From:听Uncorroborated Reports,听Smena Publishers, 1981)