JUST AFTER THE SCORPION’S STING

you are seized by that panic
that you’ll become someone else
the poison of a more dangerous
reality
you will be transformed: dot number drop
of dew

do they suffer so, I wonder, on the Alpha of Centaurus?
on the Comi Berenices?

The fever shooting up so fast
is the constellation.

(Translated by Ioanna Tachmintzis, Greek Letters, a journal of Modern Greek literature in translation, 16, 2003-4)