OPAL
Don't touch an opal.
Just look in awe upon it:
it is a tear,
shed by the angel,
when he knew
that he had not committed even one
of many splendid mortal sins.
© Stephan Gechev
© Don Wilson, translated
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© E-magazine LiterNet, 23.06.2001, ¹ 6 (19)
Other publications:
Hush, you Nightingales, Canton, Connecticut, 1993.