Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
In Your Eyelashes
A galaxy disappears
in the boundless sky
of your eye.
Infinity takes you far,
on the milky way
now you are.
This dream
that you are dreaming
connects you to me
and I read
over your eyelashes
and wrap up in it
in a spider’s web.
You transform in front of me
in a comet that is coming.
Fiery,
you burn the coldness.
And then in the ups and downs
of feelings
my star seeks to find a place
in your sleep.
You leave this world quietly
with the speed of a comet.
You wander
in the interstellar space
and fill your eyes
with a new light.
I feel
the slowdown of time
the oblivion of this world
in your eyelashes.
I know the sea is grieving
I know that the sea is grieving
I see it how it is coughing from embarrassment
in between a winter that has sank in water,
I feel shivering when December passes
and fires that fade without making much noise.
I am afraid it will get colder
I shiver from the wind that blows
and like the sea
I don’t feel quite well
even in the midst of June
when the entire world cherishes itself.
I am afraid the sea will get colder
not from constraint
when the waves fade
but in the branches of the foreign blood
when the fires burn as in the eyes of a cyclops.
I know that the sea if suffering again!
You will appear to me
If You will appear
to me
like a tomorrow,
I’ll become the present
that follows you from behind.
I see you far
and I miss you among rays
until the unlucky twilight.
In my twilight
you are a fried mirror,
in the darkness that blackens
and burns you.
I understand it,
that I still miss you among rays,
that come
from another sun.
I have met a man who used to smile only
I have met a man who used to smile only,
before he repented caught in guilt.
I have met a man who used to be happy simply in vain,
without ever explaining himself
why the world bursts out in tears.
I have asked him how does he know the world,
which seems upside down!
And after every question I have receieved tens of answers
that convinced me not!
So I have waited that one day he would ask himself,
simply in vain a question made public!
But I was afraid he would not reply,
so I have run and in the silence,
I have seen the world undressed, naked!
Literary biography
Nikollë Loka was born in Mirdita on March 25, 1960; graduated as a teacher at “Luigj Gurakuqi” University of Shkodra; master’s degree in pedagogy at the University of Tirana, doctorate in history of education at the University of Tirana. He worked as a teacher, principal in a high school and education inspector in the district of Mirdita, then a teacher in a high school in Tirana and a lecturer at “Aleksandër Xhuvani” University in Elbasan. Lives in Tirana. Author of ten poetic volumes in Albanian and three poetic volumes in Italian (two of which with co-authors); included in the anthology “La Poesie contemporaine albanaise”, “L’Hartmattan” publications, Paris 2024. In addition to Albanian, his poems have been published in Italian, English, French, German, Arabic, Romanian, Swedish and Mecedonian. Winner of several literary awards in the country and abroad. Member of several national and international literary associations. Included in the Lexicon of Albanian writers 1501-2001, editions “Faik Konica”, Pristina 2003 and in the Encyclopedia of Italian language poets, “Aletti Editore” Rome 2021.
