Capricornus, by Dan Mitrut

Capricornus

by Dan Mitrut

Almathea dug a stone coffin
from pale red giant stars.
The she-goat needed her home,
the Cosmos without forms,
the whole light of the Big Bang.

There is a way without the come back.

It is a long time since,
on a constellationed thread
at the edge of a hill,
she has looked for
the heavenly boreal austral
and the cup with the sky milk
of Graal.

~ English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ~

Romanian lawyer and poet Dan Mitrut is the author of numerous works of astronomical poetry, folk music, photography, graphics, sculpture, and drama. A meteor observer included in the International Meteor Organization Database, he is a multiple laureate for the astronomical arts at the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM. He serves as the technical vice president of SARM and has authored original astro-folk music recitals performed at the EuRoEclipse Perseids 99 (Romania) and the IMO Conference 2000 (Romania).