by Dorina Brândusa Landén
From the height of the white dome
silver bells ring bilingual
echoing so far out of town
as if would ask the young leaves of the trees
and the people who wear
silk masks on their faces
about the riders of death who brought
like concentric circles on water
the message of the ruins in our century.
One steps on its own shadow
other on wine sleeping for a thousand years
getting drunk
trees are changing their barks
their epidermis is looking for friends.
False joys false calculations
will fill weeks of silence.
As if someone multiply us
with zero absolute
existence means nothing
but the fall of seconds.
It's noon.
Like boats in a swamp
the words the shadows disappear
people
lose their self
only deaf-mute gestures remain
and a beetle
caught in a bit of resin.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Dorina Brândusa Landén was born in the Transylvanian city of Deva, Romania in 1958. Presently she is resident in Sweden. She has received the following awards: Romulus Guga’s Prose Competition, second prize, 1983, Lucian Blaga’s The National Poetry Festival Award, 1984, Ion D. Sîrbu Foundations Prize for Poetry in 2012 for the book Judecata apei (The Judgement of Water), poetry book in Romanian, DaniMar Publishing House, Romania. Poetry, prose and translations of Swedish poetry into Romanian have been published in a wide array of the Romanian literary magazines including: Romania literara (Romania literary), Luceafarul (The Star), Cronica (The Chronicle), Vatra (The Hearth), Orizont (Horizon), Tribuna (Tribune), Transilvania (Transylvania), SLAST, Vatra Veche (The Old Hearth) Euphorion, Ardealul literar (Transylvania literary) and Pro saeculum. In 1986 she had a reportage featured in in the collective volume: Journey from the springs (Calatorie spre izvoare), Eminescu Publishing House, Romania. Books: Vanzatorul de imagini (The Image Vendor), poetry book in Romanian, Calauza v.b. Publishing House, Romania (2010). Followed by La nord de sufletele voastre (North of your Souls), a poetry book in Romanian, Calauza v.b. Publishing House, Romania. (2011). Judecata apei (The Judgement of Water), poetry book in Romanian, DaniMar Publishing House, Romania. (2012). North of your Souls e-book, Ardiganbooks, UK (2012).
Last updated May 25, 2014