ANNIHILATION
AGNES SOTIRACOPOULOU - SKINA
O sudden moment–
When all my senses blossom
Complete and alive
As if beneath the swan.
How strange this shudder
Which grips my whole body
And brings me to fullness–
But it always passes
Fades there on the edge of the desert
Leaving me alone
And more ruined than before–
Bitterly annihilated.
Translated from French by Hugh Mckinley
and the author