青春之泉 (Fountain of Youth)

I Love You I love you like dipping bread into salt and eating Like waking up at night with high fever and drinking water, with the tap in my mouth Like unwrapping the heavy box from the postman with no clue what it is fluttering, happy, doubtful I love you like flying over the sea in a plane for the first time Like something moves inside me when it gets dark softly in Istanbul I love you Like thanking God that we live. Nâzım Hikmet English translation by Süleyman Fatih Akgül

穆磊 (Mù Lěi), 《對流》 (Convection), oil on canvas, 160 x 220 cm, 2010. Courtesy of Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium.