PALENESS

                     μετάφραση: Γιάννης Γκούμας

When it never grew dark
somewhere at the rocks
paleness appeared filmsily.

Without pain in fact
but singing
and covering everything
with a wondrous, wan light.

At dawn
when my rays vanished
paleness unlocked a world
where lighthouses shook
the sea's death
albeit with compassion
within
           the shuttered
hours.

Osiris 73, December 2011, Northampton Massachusetts, USA