Now, the storm has arranged the insane,
set down a different order.
Those at the end are children, like rhymes.
A lunatic poem started as a protest.
My smile is thrown down
like a wounded wing
—clumsy me—
I can't lift it, can't grip it.
A crowd tramples my lips—
it gets worse in the throng's midst.
I look up—drops like mini-megaphones.
I chase them down and to each one,
read my poems.
It's odd. Not a single drop lingers with me.
And I remember the sticky stage
in a packed-out house
where, once upon a time
as a child, I foolishly rose
when my mother was dying
and clumsily climbed up on the table
to make God better hear my prayers…
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem