CAROL ANN DUFFY

YOU

Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head.
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.

Falling in love
is glamorous hell: the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger, ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin.
into my life, larger than life, you strolled in.

I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone’s face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

as I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like gift, like a touchable dream.
 

Ioana Teodorescu

Carol Ann Duffy
 

TU
 

Neinvitat, gandul la tine a zabovit prea mult in mintea mea.
asa ca m-am culcat, visandu-te foarte, foarte tare, m-am trezit cu numele tau,
precum niste lacrimi, usor, sarat, pe buze, sunetul silabelor lui stralucitoare
precum un descantec, precum o vraja.

Sa te indragostesti
e un iad fermecator: inima ghemuita, scorojita,
ca un tigru, gata sa ucida; atingeri salbatice ale unei flacari sub piele.
in viata mea, mai mare decat viata, ai venit.

M-am ascuns in zile obisnuite, in iarba inalta a rutinei,
in camere de camuflaj. Te-ai lafait in ochii mei,
privindu-ma de pe chipul oricui, din forma unui nor,
din luna ce, stingandu-se, lovita de pamant, se holbeaza la mine

pe cand deschid usa dormitorului. Perdelele freamata.
Iata-te pe pat, precum un dar, precum un vis tangibil.