CEREMONY

The ceremony of Autumn
entering the City
precedes my getting famous

I am chosen
toclose the gates to the greenery
with a crop
of yellowish-copper sunflower

to give it its full-armor splendor
of days when
on the patio of weaved wicker twigs
I didn’t mind the ceiling made of redburned clay
but
I was watching rains of enchanted drops
of life alongside petals of magnolias flowered one more time
then
in the exhaledair
I was sending my strong yearning for spring…

Now

I am planting emerald-green in brick-red
withouthaving to speed up blossoms’ bloom
withoutattempting returns to the mild summer
or
to the untamed and unpredictable spring.

I let the unchained thought flow
infree verses of creeks.

din volumul Traps / Capcane, Corina Victoria Sein, traducere în limba engleză de Mihai Mihuţ, ilustraţii de Marius Fechete, în pregătire la Ed. Excelsior Art, 2015

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