after bathing, perhaps

            

 

 

 

 

 

                      Purity

 

 

 

 

 

Amazing solitude.
Only me and my cigarette,
and this tiny dragonfly
painted in Moldavian monastery blue.

 

Nothing threatens me,
not even the sun.
The sky is an immense cloud
made of mother-of-pearl.

The lake is an immense cloud
made of mother-of-pearl.
I am the mermaid of the lake.
– I am an infinite melody
like the murmur of the rain.  

 

And I am clean,
like the poem I’m writing.

 

 

 

 

                      Nina Cassian      +April 2014

                           Romanian poet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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