O F    L O V E I’ve seen such banquets where Muscles of man offered on the plates Loneliness before those oblique bodies Was smashing everything far from each other A woman A man Breathing mysteriously, a man Showing as the failure of the hunt To his hunting peer and hiding Between the rushes in the reedy By separating and fetching The warm and viscous whispers Was wrapping them around his body like a rope While he could resemble everything While nothing resembled him That famed trump If starts blowing From the base of our hair - identity Of a ferocious animal collars us Is he a man, lying In a bunch of sun on the lagoon, And in that violet ray Like a dead dog Or is that the shadow of a wild duck Sliding hastily  Translated from the Turkish by sukru kaya