Triangulum Australe

by Dan Mitrut


Next to the altar
three sacred shadows
donate the lovest tear
to the bark of the nights

whilst the pagan Centaur
baptizes himself
in the blue of the equator
spotted by three tender lights.


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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