Meditation &Poetry Entropy | 30 Jul 2008
Hour-Glass
Do I slowly empty
Or fill myself ?
The same flow of sand,
Whichever way
You turn it.
© By Marin Sorescu
Translated by Michael Hamburger
Marin Sorescu, a prominent poet and playwright, was Romania’s Nobel Prize nominee in 1996, the year of his untimely death at the age of 60. Sorescu’s works, serious and wide-ranging in idea, are frequently comic, deceptively light, witty and sometimes absurd, often deadpan in their delivery-