The flight

Comet flight
because the wind was calling her,
it was necessary to be free,
to surround herself with stars,
to flee the limitations of the sea:
as the sea receives
the ashes of other brothers
that do not fly,
as the sea that is known only
as the sea and does not hide,
as the sea spreads
like the horn of a bull
and does not allow freedom
to be in solitude,
like the sea that holds its moon
and lulls to sleep his immense misfortune.


ROSAMARIA JOOS, ©2006
Translated by Mark L. Melcher