Geography and Earthquake

With feelings shaken,
Undetectable,
Ne'er more surprised on the village fields,
I depart, never attaining geographies.
In my fist
None but the crumbs of formless centuries.

[Gjeografi e tërmet, from the volume Last Exit to Bukura Morea, Castrovillari: Il Coscile, 2003, p. 22. Translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie]