APRILIA ZANK

APRILIA ZANK

Ten Haiku

seconds fluttering

volatile chronology

migrant birds one way

craws spot derailed trains

wind in windowless stations

passengers long gone

late autumn sun bares

                      traces of rust on your thoughts                       

memories untouched

after the snow time

and after the cherry time

the time to ponder

deep blue alluring

glimpses of Ophelia

treacherous seaweeds

time is a mirror

it engraves fate on faces

leaves traces in mind

silence trapped in ice

the warmth of breath would break it

turn your head to shout

last year's beds slumber,

dream of the resplendency

of the next seedlings

hay flower fragrance

squeezed to embalm gone-by loves

teach me forgiveness!

sky in the ripples

seaweeds cast nets of yearning

lily nymphs long gone

APRILIA ZANK

Dr. APRILIA ZANK is a lecturer for Creative Writing and Translation Theory from Germany. She received her PhD degree in Literature and Psycholinguistics for her thesis THE WORD IN THE WORD Literary Text Reception and Linguistic Relativity, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she started her academic career as a lecturer. She is also a poet, a translator and the editor of two anthologies: the English–German anthology poetry tREnD Eine englisch-deutsche Anthologie zeitgenössischer Lyrik, LIT Verlag, Germany, 2010, and the anthology POETS IN PERSON at the Glassblower (Indigo Dreams Publishing, UK, 2014). She writes verse in English and German, and was awarded a prize at the “Vera Piller” Poetry Contest in Zurich. Her poetry collection, TERMINUS ARCADIA, was 2nd Place Winner at the Twowolvz Press Poetry Chapbook Contest 2013. BAREFOOT TO ARCADIA, her bilingual collection of poems translated in Telugu by the eminent Indian poet and translator Dr. L. S. R. Prasad. was launched in 2018 in Hyderabad, India, as a bilingual book. Her Beat poetry collection READING THE SIGNS was published in the USA in 2019. Aprilia has received wide recognition in both western and eastern countries for her merits and achievements. She is active in many literary and artistic groups, a frequent judge in poetry and photography competitions, and a member of the editorial boards of advisors of prestigious literary platforms such as Our Poetry Archive (OPA), Sahitya Anand Literary Journal and Athena, Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2018, she was awarded the title “Dr. Aprilia Zank – Germany Beat Poet Laureate – Lifetime”, by the National Beat Poetry Foundation (USA). Aprilia is also a passionate photographer: many of her images are prize winners and have been selected for poetry book covers.