Poem
From People Like You
Alexander Androv
Translated from the Bulgarian · От хора като теб
From people like you
in people like me
something stays unwritten
In the pensive depths of eyes
and in the ashes of the morning
before a sun unfolding into leaf
from people like you
in people like me
pressed close
there stays a breath of poppy
and a breath of ash
a breath of milk, spilt.
1994