~ English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ~
~ first English version published in Romanian Contemporary Astropoetry 2000 ~

Iulian Olaru is a Romanian engineer, popularizer of astronomy, photographer, and meteor observer included in the International Meteor Organization Database. He was named laureate for astro-haiku at the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteor and Astronomy-SARM.