Lynx

by Dan Mitrut


What is this strange beast
scratching the darkness?

With its eyes hidden
in short-sighted stars,
a corner of comet rends
the nude perihelions,
announcing the hunt.

On Earth,
crickets sing on its way.
Above the waters,
the genius of the river Tigris.


Copyright © 2003, Dan Mitrut

~ 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 Data Base, 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).

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