ROMANIA'A STEFAN DOINAS

The dawn offers a canary
when morning and sun
wait for your journey
to sing outside your cage
now the soldier
with a mustache sings
the little girl with flowers
holds her tune under water
and Bucharest has no regrets
when a Jewish doctor
saves a life
implants a new brain
which has only love inside
for an unprejudiced judge
who visits its graves to sing
prayers for the dead.