APRILIA ZANK

 

Tiny Islands Of Being

 

when time breaks

in shards of memories

and you live

on tiny islands of being

in a vain attempt

to refute the laws of entropy,

the velvet stone under your nape

smooth, weather polished

won't be enough

to fill the gaps in the walls

of the crumbling citadel

 

we throw coins

into odd wishing wells

concentric ripples expand

break on unyielding rocks

while vultures rotate

above unaware preys

and in secret chambers of flesh

rivulets of ecstasy

crave to burst

from the depth

of self-made dungeons 

 

Women On A Train

 

the woman with the two fretting kids

is body in the first place

flesh under white spotless skin

bursting with fertility

 

the older woman wears a flowery dress

tinted blooms on pale white

under semitransparent fabric

years hang on loose skin

 

the other elderly woman

keeps questioning the etymology of words

in earlier times, she tells her placid husband,

we just said them, didn't care about such things

 

the two sexy though a bit oversized girl

get into an argument over changing seats

which the one with the longer darker hair

finds pointless after due consideration

 

their voices are higher than average

but the other passengers don't object

the men just gaze at them and around

with no concern for political correctness

 

Who Has Seen The Wind

 

nescient voice in my early twenties

I had forgotten

Christina Rossetti loved fairy-tales

 

(I used to sing this song –

John Lennon & Yoko Ono –

I recorded it on tape and

sent it to my distant lover)

 

recovered it after half a life

wondered if it still worked

 

(when you open the envelope

crammed with a skeleton of syllables

and you are a stranger

to your own words)

 

these are not my finger prints

these echoes don't mould

into what I called love

 

have I ever seen the wind

or just heard the hanging leaves

tremble

while waiting for the postman

to hand me over

the sound of love

 

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.