Katia Kapovich
Parting makes simple sense
Parting makes simple sense,
there’s no special sense in it.
The air will be to blame,
the garden full of birds whistling.
The smoke and the strip of water
there by the mossy forest.
Even that the sunset cut
across the rows of pines.
It will turn everything into ashes
with the quiet oncoming of night,
so that in tormenting dreams
the eye should fall for
the thousandth time
to the keyhole of the world
not finding in the light
that which it sought in the dark,
aiming at the door with the little cross-key.
And you raise a pale blue
pupil in the summer sky.
You will not share life with me
and couldn’t care less about freedom.
But there is a terrible truth
hidden in your madness.
As though you know everything
about everything. Even more than is necessary.
Translated by Richard McKane
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