Lake In Bucharest

feijóo 57 Samuel Feijóo Translated by Kathleen Weaver Lake In Bucharest Tranquil water of a Rumanian afternoon: yesterday a cloud over Asia or a drop in Antillian grass. You feign a mirror of friendship through the summer day. Today: peace, sketchings of a duck. Yesterday, bubbles, camel slaver, phlegm of the sick, a dog's tear. Today you reflect a man wandering like you: cloud, tear, phlegm. Cloud of nostalgias, tear of the insane, phlegm of the thrashed. You give back a peace you do not know. Tranquil water, my equal, in that. Bucharest, August 5, 1971 ...