I kissed you secretly every time you brought rain
in the unknown space between hieroglyphs
your distant breath raised silence
a lateen of blood gliding on heart through the soft snow

I kissed you secretly every time you brought blight
into dark days

I waited for your growing from the stones’ flesh
across the salt that veiled
my past with the same dry tumor
resembling the countenance of the woman who
for an instant abandoned innocence
in the corpse drowned by
ocean’s syllables

Translation by Luminita Suse