CAMERA FOR THE SOUL

We photograph ourselves more and more often.

We seem to be forever happy,

always smiling,

holding each other by the shoulders,

we portray ourselves in impressive postures

as if in this way

we might glide into eternity.

But what would happen

if in this picture we’d be able

to put the soul?

ION DEACONESCU, Romania (1947)

Translation: Gabriela Căluțiu Sonnenberg – Stanley H. Barkan

From: „Ferestre Zidite”, Editura Cluj-Napoca, 2015

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