Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MORNING AWAKENING, by SANDOR CSOORI


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First Line: Good morning,--I greet you when you open the door
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Love - Erotic; Morning


Good morning, -- I greet you when you open the door
and with my greeting the smell
of elderberry and of thyme and of a hundred herbs
pours into your room.
Look, the guests of the new day, -- I'd go on
playfully waking you
in the luster above the doorstep,
but I can see: on the green screen of your eyes
your dreams are still staggering:
a horse carriage in Sarajevo, loaded with corpses
and a walking, burning candle following the carriage.
It sends cold shivers down my back:
it's only who I dream
such stageable horrors
like an ocean satiated
with shipwrecked corpses.
Can it be that we are also sharing our dreams,
like our legs, our hands?
and we slip into each other's depths
swimming, floating, with closed eyes,
with nerves stripped to the skin ?

First published in The Kenyon Review, Volume 22, #1, Winter 2000.
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