ZORNITSA PETROVA

***

Punished I am
by memory -
sleep.
The sleep
with dreams
is awake.
Transparent
is the sleeping
hand.

***

Under the sleeping
breast
hooves drum.
The left
half
of the body
still loves.
The right one keeps waking up.

***

My skin
has absorbed
darkness
old
like a parchment map
pale
like a young moon.
My skin
Invites you.



Translated by Petyo Peychev