Poem

"A certain thing a scaly glove a misshapen dangerattracts the compromised words the mist in the world's dictionarieson a mountain of masks the sun struggles to riseits beams are lost from one another for another seasonthe mind is currying favor with all the versions of deaththe soul only with the uncertain edge of the last historic erawe'll be happy for fear it will take revengeunhappy for fear we may come to avenge it."(THE COMPROMISE CYCLE IN NATURE)


by Elena Ştefoi (b. 1954)