all around me fears the mountain

all around me fears the mountain
the mountain encloses my heart
in an earth ball
maculated by indecent snows
unknown
a deforested highway
to Beyond

of the earth mouth
I am afraid
of the crunched time
over my heart, alive still
a lost fossil
in the mountain’s body
disassembled from its shadow
rock by rock
painful
purple

all around me fears the mountain
the mountain encloses my heart
in an earth ball

by Marina Nicolaev




(Translated by Luminita Suse)