by Dorina Brândusa Landén
I’m curled up like a fetus
released by the body heat
- imprisoned in steel -
half flesh half soul.
All the seconds deserts me
between them is a transparent wall.
Darkness climbs onto my shoulders
between breasts someone is breathing fast fast
her nucleus into my arteries -
absorbing the core of the substance
time
like a shadow the man
like a sheath edge of the sword.
Ah the distance between a living body and
the sense of being alive!
The last term
hours after hours are leaking
on the sky the moon is red
a sea of blood
the clouds are large carnivorous fish
in an iceberg without weight.
Austere spirits of the darkness like air
sailing across borders
that untie souls
burying the lightning - nocturnal flights.
This night is draining my heart
the earth is losing its breath in the air
the crickets’ song is trickling still
and from the trees defeated by cold
on tender blades of grass
chlorophyll flows silently.
At the end of my portion of life
aurora borealis raises bridges of frost
on the naked eye ephemera wails
broken stars royal influx of holograms
orchestras of butterflies.
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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