APRILIA ZANK

 

 

Incense

 

they had made fires

at the roadside

sitting there

with darkness on their shoulders

sharing ghosts

from generation to generation

chewing the knowledge

of transient flesh

 

under gleaming incense

the road melts

into limpid tissue

on the bones of night

 

time gnaws

at stucco gods

marble corpses

feed lizards and ivy

rain washes down

snake scales

onto scarlet silk

dying on rusty fences

 

in the cave

benevolent elephants

stare with thousand eyes

through gaps

in ivory towers

 

The Late Truth

 

the late truth

empty

like a bottle

with missing message

on a barren shore

 

among polished shells

of dead crabs

rotten wood

remnants from

long-forgotten shipwrecks

 

callous seagulls

peck

sharply aimed

at shell-less mollusks

 

under restless waves

the truth

disintegrates to sand

 

APRILIA ZANK

 

Dr. APRILIA ZANK is an educationist, freelance lecturer for Creative Writing and Translation Theory, as well as a multilingual poet, translator, editor from Munich, Germany and an Author of the Poetry book BAREFOOT TO ARCADIA. Born in Romania, she studied English and French Literature and Linguistics at the University of Bucharest, and then moved to Munich, Germany where she received her PhD degree in Literature and Psycholinguistics for her thesis, THE WORD IN THE WORD Literary Text Reception and Linguistic Relativity, from the Ludwig Maximilian University, where she started her teaching career. The research for her PhD thesis was done in collaboration with six universities from Europe, and as a visiting lecturer at Alberta University of Edmonton, Canada. Dr Aprilia writes verses in English and German, French and Romanian and was awarded a distinction 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. In 2018, she was awarded the title “Dr. Aprilia Zank – Germany Beat Poet Laureate”, by the National Beat Poetry Foundation (USA). She has been an acclaimed guest at cultural events in Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Turkey, Singapore and Romania, where she read her poems, delivered lectures on various topics. Her poems and articles are published in many ezines and Anthologies of different countries.