Poems
Ripened Life Goes On
It only gets worse Water gets saltier Noises grow bigger and louder Breathing, heavier and faster Understanding, less and less clear Foreign accents more Arabic, more Asian I remember the time when I used to loose my mind Without a care or control I remember free feelings without guilt or fear When politics did not affect me so internally When every woman had a smell and a taste I am concluding that nature is not natural anymore The white teeth have turned yellow The skin not so elastic, not so smooth The smile not so wide Sex not so exciting Death stares at me from the open casket Of my cousin in law, Mihai His wife faints and death waves at me From the back of the Romanian chapel My mother is hit by a car in Bucharest I imagine her tiny body flying through the air “All’s well that ends well” Writes my philosopher brother I ask myself: What end? What’s well? ”Icarus”, Constanțiu Mara
Sari Dienes, our sad weather queen!
The ghost of Sari Dienes Wrapped in bones of assemblage Covered in remains of her collage Light and white, wrapped together Floating fiercely down the Hudson Sari Dienes! Oh! Sari Dienes How did you ever survive Irene? Just barely, your poor soul ravaged Contravene with a prayer machine The hurricane that gave us a taste of hell 27 works lost, a lifetime washed away Where are you Sari Dienes? Winds blowing tourmaline Walls crumbling like gelatin Rain falling onto the ravine Wind whistled through your prints Trapped under debris and parts unseen A sheetrock slab saved some lithographs A wooden stick impaled your drawing Dada is bleeding blue blood Sky is bleeding raging waters Gods of dream drowned unforeseen Assemblage lost in a garage Woman-artist of the future Spirit rising from the subterrene Sari Dienes, Oh! Sari Dienes How did you survive
Poems by Valery Oișteanu (SUA)
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by Valery Oișteanu 3/27/2024 |
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