POTTERY

by Marin Sorescu


Archeologists had discovered,
On my body's teritory
An earthen pot.

The pot had the form of a heart.
An unknown artisan had painted
- Before Christ -
Some sun rays on it.

Other people came after that
And mixed their souls among its rays
In folk motifs.

At present I add on the old pottery
New epochal drawings,
For them, the archeologists of the year 4000,
To attest my existence
In the second half of the 20th century,
Approximately.




(Translated from Romanian by Brigitta Daniela Buda)