Wheel With a Single Spoke: And Other Poems by Nichita Stănescu

Author:Nichita Stănescu [Stănescu, Nichita]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Anthologies, Romanian Literature, Poetry
ISBN: 9781935744429
Publisher: Archipelago
Published: 2012-07-12T23:00:00+00:00

I’m So Tired I Can’t Go On, He Said

I’m so tired I can’t go on, he said,

standing like a veiled wave . . .

eye, O iris, iris-eyed

proffer a truthful gaze.

You hit my chest with sightless

wine from your goblets spilled,

which I now drink, and while I do

I am drenched but unsullied.

And you beat me with

Saturn’s falling vine,

the thick tail of a comet snuffed

when it and thought entwined.

While my frozen skull turns white

around the eyes it hasn’t got,

from one to ten

the bears eat ice and grow thin

with the polar desperation

of “haves” and “have nots.”

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