Morning Sea

Let me stand here. Let me also look at nature a while.
The shore of the morning sea and the cloudless
sky brilliant blue and yellow
all illuminated lovely and large.

Let me stand here. Let me delude myself that I see these things
(I really did see them a moment when I first stopped);
and not that here too I see my fantasies,
my memories, my visions of sensual delight.

uit: The complete poems of Cafavy, translated by Rae Dalven, Harcourt 1976