Author name: Maya Herman Sekulić

SLOVENIA, WORLD’S POETS

FLAMING CRANES

When I got back home, my apartment sighed, a draught-horse straining at the weight. The room I had abandoned was left ajar like an unbuttoned shirt, a breathing slightly open, a breathing long obstructed. The balcony hung over us like a long-legged morning full of turning iron cranes. I tried to gnaw through the gray

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SLOVENIA, WORLD’S POETS

OTHERNESS

When you put a wild cat out the door skyscrapers will be waiting for you. They veil their eyes. The doors are just heavy enough to shut you in. When the meadow is being torn open, white milk drops over the earth’s feet. What can you understand from utterly other worlds other than destruction? Smile

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Turkiye, WORLD’S POETS

They Say…  

They say, if a woman in love would have her hands use as a shield by the two sides of her mouth and whisper wholeheartedly the name of her lover three times, then that man would be startled and shaken. He would blush, get an expected ache in his nose, and a sense of numbness

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