Sapardi Djoko Damono

1940 / Surakarta, Central Java

Moonlight At Midnight

I awake on the chair as moonlight falls on my face through a glass roof-tile
did the rain stop long ago?
the newspaper I was reading spreads open
lying on the floor; in the middle of the night it looks so cold and transient

Translation: Hasif Amini and Sapardi Djoko Damono
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