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Eugen Jebeleanu: Don’t

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

No, don’t enjoy
this life too much, this tumult
which makes you imagine
it’s not the same thing as sand.
Don’t imagine …
because it’s like this.
From flames she makes ash.
From ash, wind.
And from what’s made from wind
she makes a room without walls,
without words.

—translations by Matthew Zapruder and Radu Ioanid

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Issue 65 Tagged With: Contributors 65, Eugen Jebeleanu, Fiction, Fiction 65

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