Archivi categoria: Poesia

Michael Mckimm

‘Eventually I had to leave…’       Eventually I had to leave the clapboard house by the river, the river flooding again, my time running out. I bussed and hitched, jumped a freight or two when I could manage, … Continua a leggere

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Yannis Stigas

I am impatient for the Antarctic to become an epidemic of sight. For the underground bread to be shared at last according to each one’s faith in the miracle. Miracle, to be able to laugh while holding your boredom, a … Continua a leggere

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Ivanka Mogilska

PRAYER I want to be a cartoon character.   I want someone to draw me. To think with my head. To speak with my mouth. To be an accomplice in a comic book. When I mess up, I want the … Continua a leggere

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János Lackfi

REVELATION  As if a little boy                                   sees an undressing woman through the evening’s aquarium window a tormenting pain escorts him persistently, strangely in … Continua a leggere

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Ivan Hristov

BDIN* Dear Mother, I died but I didn’t go to heaven, instead I arrived in Bdin. The postman on his rustyUkrainebicycle** frequently passes by, thus, contrary to all laws, you will have news from me. To tell you the truth, … Continua a leggere

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Nora Nadjarian

Aphrodite Rising In the audience,  the eyes of the astonished shells. My body is water, voluminous, untamed. My body is light, craved, dazzling, an enigma. My body is sand, flowing upwards through the hourglass, filling me, pushing me into lucid … Continua a leggere

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Phoebe Giannisi

  Prize or Patroclus I  respect and honor are what humans desire most of all for what they are and what they deserve I deserve honor and I will not beg for it said achilles to agamemnon when he took … Continua a leggere

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Katerina Iliopoulou

Tenaron Here the days do not dissolve in air They fall into the water Forming their own layer. A divided surface. A hawk flies over summer’s body Diving again and again Feeding and getting drunk on falling. There is nothing … Continua a leggere

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POESIA: Vassilis Amanatidis

The Canyon  or The Invention of Sadness  (HEROES) Forever in the canyon. Where not a house nowhere. The one thing always all over: snow. Soft, very, warm for us, as far as the end of the canyon. Not from above. … Continua a leggere

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POESIA: MEHMET YASHIN

THE FISHERMAN   The spongelike rock which rolled down from the mountain must be nice and soft, imagines the fish.    Hollowed seashells that have washed ashore; heedless of their petrifaction, the child lets them off into the waves as if what’s … Continua a leggere

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