August evenings

Uri Kassyanik

AUGUST EVENINGS
(impromptu)

the august-dense-generous evenings of August,
filled up with the light of the brightest night stars,
not yet lit up but are extremely-desired
by passions of legless Procrustean victims
and cries universal of crucified slaves
along Via Appia - to shame and to glory,
to high sweetest pleasures of slayers and poets,
full of their dreams, inspiration and bliss,
and nice lyre music, so lovely and pleasant,
like pain of perversions beyond the gods' reach...
and four special tunics still patiently waiting
in their chests the shudder, the chill and the moisture
of winter, like lovers - their hottest embraces,
the pyramids sleep, and the serpents awake
before dipping into the tenderest breasts,
the birds are prepared to flying and singing,
and August will come in the young ringing April
on second Mars-day, on the odd celebration,
and all stars will sing the forget-me-not-song
of the deathless light of the long distant worlds...


Translated by the Author
Aug 12 2017     21-15

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