Daily Poem: Prayer ~ Nina Cassian
Prayer
~ Nina Cassian
Translated from the Romanian by Brenda Walker and Andrea Deletant
If you really exist—show up
as a bear, a goat, a pilot,
come with eyes, mouth, voice,
—demand something from me,
force me to sacrifice myself,
take me in your arms, protect me from above,
feed me with the seventh part of one fish,
hiss at me, reanimate my fingers,
refill me with aromas, with astonishment
—resurrect me.
