nightly talk
deathless soul dying in me innumerable
falling stars
which language do I speak bypassing
Ascension
touching the earth is all the rain needs
and love returns to its pit gently
come to me fruit & flower
in one
heaven so what
Different powers make different mixtures.
— Dante, Paradise, Canto II
delighted to see you here so human
on the road
the mystic rose behind souls
that are real
forever real & forever alive yes
I’ll start
I am learning how to move the pen
from one circle
to the next
to skip the eagle
the fixed stars within myself
not looking back to burn
& to rise
under the shroud
one more picture
under the shroud
the ghostly sky
the nowhere clouds
the sun becoming stellar
thinner the road wooden
the heart
: it shelters us
like in a mirror
we are & we are not
STELLA VINITCHI RADULESCU, Ph.D. in French Language & Literature, is the author of several collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania, and France. She writes poetry in English, French, and Romanian and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Pleiades, Louisville Review, Laurel Review, Rhino, World Literature Today, Seneca Review, among others, as well as in a variety of literary magazines in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. Her last collection of poetry, I scrape the window of nothingness – new & selected poems was released in 2015 from Orison Books Press. A new book of translations (by Luke Hankins) of her French work, A Cry in the Snow & Other Poems, is forthcoming in an in-ternational edition from Seagull Books. At the present she lives in Chicago.
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