Zenon's Visions

by Adrian Sima

(1) Prophecy

… and he who said that
nobody can squeeze
a drop of light
from the wings
of the night butterflies,

that one ploughs meteorites
in his own field.

(2) Deja-Vu

Some day I saw
this color somewhere,
but I am not sure…

It was an old night, I think,
when I came home
gnawed
by the lunar dogs
of nature,

or perhaps it was a sea
painted in the sky
by a hand
of arrogant butterflies…

or perhaps
it was just the sky
and me just an eye.

(3) Multiplying the String

You can cut a string
into two parts
thinking you halve
the whole Universe,

after that
can take every half
and, repeating
the same method,
can say you divide
the Universe to infinity,

but you would never suppose
the string uses you
to multiply itself.

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