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Ion Deaconescu [Romania]

  Question     My mother is growing younger in my thoughts,    And is recovering under the ground,    As the frail lily-like hand    Is petrified by agony and fright,    And I’m still wondering why in my thought    I see my mother growing younger.       So Much Searching   You told me in the phone call    That the last poem    I’ve sent you,    Is put in a Sèvres bowl,    An expensive one, inherited from your grandparents.    You read it from time to time and also caress it    And it smells like fresh earth,    Like a rose before the falling of hoar-frost,    Of dew and rain,    Sometimes it smells like me,    And a little dizzy     You do not know what to do with the page    From where so many vowels and exclamation marks    Are flying to your heart.    Offer ...