Renaissance
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Flying is a matter of style
silence will strap you on Earth
the Renaissance gardens won't fit in your eyes
But remember
you are still a clod in my hands I can mold you
again
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The skylark took off—
the blue grew higher the world grew deeper
one can see the bottom of the day
migrating
Mother, how I fear you now your huge eye from where soon
Winter will come
Pastoral View
The trail gets loose in cold imagination
loose
losing
lost
the cock-a-doodle-do the egg the panoramic view—
but leaves were real little tombs and warm
the day under my feet
must have been
Spring
I said tomorrow
you said yesterday
trees rising to the sky like candles lips
that take the shape
of the moon
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, Ph.D. in French Language & Literature, is the author of several collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania and France, including Insomnia in Flowers (2008), All Seeds & Blues (2011), I Was Afraid of Vowels (bilingual, Luke Hankins translator, 2011). She writes poetry in English, French and Romanian and her poems have appeared in Laurel Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Wallace Stevens Journal, Seneca Review, Pleiades, Rhino, Louisville Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, among others, as well as in a variety of literary magazines in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Québec and Romania. She is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and the winner of several International Poetry Prizes awarded for her books published in France.