Aurel Stancu
Aurel Stancu
different dreams
From Lectia de uliu (A hawk's lesson)
Translation by Petru Iamandi.
today I'm asked our relationship doesn't lack this city and I dream different dreams
to befriend this city
to accept the way it thinks
suffers enjoys itself dies
oh civilisation technology progress corruption
at the same time in the same place
poor me and poor it
affection
we are the caretaker and the animal in the cage
identity's halts have a blurred outline
and trainers often muddle feelings
making spectators witnesses to error
and neither of us dares to admit it