Fotis Siotas / Φώτης Σιώτας

Again in your embrace, again, like a small child
Unwilted woman, again, like a small child

I never forgot you, never, like a small child
hazy moonlight, never, like a small child

Full moon, give me your other side
The breath is like a saw
It cuts time and scatters
into the pure silence
fire and snow

Far from you I lost myself often, like a small child
fertile tide, often, like a small child

Ancient wave, ancient anticipation
The breath is like a saw
It cuts time and scatters
into the pure silence
fire and snow

I seek your love, again, like a small child
A light gazelle, again, like a small child

Surrendered and absolutely together
The breath is like a saw
It cuts time and scatters
into the pure silence
fire and snow

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Who will remember me when I will be a fever
which stayed in the body only for one night.
Who will remember me when I will be the cry
which never rolled far from the bed.

Who will talk to me when I will have become tired
of the ragged old speeches.
Who will recognize me when I will have been covered up
by the hours spit out by the nervous clocks.

Who will rescue me when I will become trapped
like a motionless rabbit before the lights.
Who will wake me up when I will have gone to sleep
with thirty pieces of silver under the door.

Who will set the boundary for me when I will be an echo
that left the breast and reached the Andes.
Who will subject me when I will have as a charm
the lost dream of the sailor of Kronstadt.*

(translation: Eva Johanos
*Kronstadt: a municipal town in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on Kotlin Island, 30 kilometers west of St. Petersburg proper near the head of the Gulf of Finland)