Glow

With the gold of the stars
unshadow the night

restore silence
with words of light

don’t experience time as loss
or as bygone

but of every moment
the ephemeral glow.

Germain Droogenbroodt

Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan

from: “The Unrest of the Word – La inquietud de la palabra”

POINT Editions, Boekenplan, 2021