LILLA LATUS

 

LILLA LATUS

 

Architect Or Non-Existent Town

 

Line curves

are dancing with Sabbath candles

I am making up Shtetl

again

each street’s name is

Nice or Good

from the train station

you can get to the Bright Sides

and in the theatre, you can pay for Plays

each word separately

 

Walls are spinning

Columns are bouncing up

to the Sky

like to the music

by the best Klezmer

 

and who told

that Architecture

cannot be danced about

 

 

Pure Form

 

I am sitting at the dirty

train station

thinking about you

 

dirty thoughts

in the purest form

a train is

coming leaving

 

a cleaner has washed

the floor

I am walking along

the corridor

 

alone

 

pure profit

 

 

Romeo

 

he does not have

to sleep alone

 

he is looking for Juliet

in younger and younger

bodies

 

a bed helps put

loneliness to sleep

 

Romeo does not stray

only he cannot find

the right balcony

 

 

A Girl Wih Raindrops In Her Voice

 

She used to tell me about Plato and Aristotle.

Her Slavic accent sounded like gravel in the

Rain. Ing,ing, ing…

Feeling a fading shadow around my neck

I see a bright cave paved with desire and

Fear. In her language love and hatred are feminine

Nothing was neuter. Golden mean in motion.

I was Alexander but not great enough to conquer

The furthest reaches of her soul.

Leaving was a move excluding one of

The possible versions of future.

All places of my happiness are taken and create

Gloomy theory of forms.

Sitting in a brown study with blind shutters,

I can hear raindrops searching for a dry land.

Falling, tapping, dying, ing, ing, ing…

 

 

Incomplete  Cv

 

Age: 18 years old

Education: uncompleted

Marital status: single with prospects

Financial status: backpack full of dreams

Professional experience: impossible to gain

Interests: fast motorcycling

 

No condolences appreciated

 

LILLA LATUS

 

LILLA LATUS (Poland) - poetess, translator, author of reviews, song lyrics, articles about travelling. Many times, awarded both for her poetry and engagement in cultural activity for local community. Published nine books of poems. Her poetry has been published in many magazines and anthologies both in Poland and abroad (USA, Australia, India, The Czech Republic, Italy, Albania, etc).