Danijela Trajković (1980) is a Serbian poet, writer, reviewer and translator. Her book “22 Wagons” has been published by The Academy of Arts, Knjazevac, 2018. Her work has been translated into many languages and published in journals, anthologies and newspapers worldwide. She lives and works in Vranje.
Linden Tea
We have your linden tea
In the balcony that roses
Keep from the outside world
The sky is ordinary
The air of big cities
The day loses its strength
We don't understand each other fully
And you say it would be boring
If we did
And that your scorn
For the one that will have me
Is much stronger than the tea.
Three Act Death
Act I
My childhood love
killed in war.
Act II
My two-year-old son
most likely has autism.
Act III
You
stopped loving me.
21 Grams
For S. Lj.
My soul tears apart
like the threads of a torn dishcloth that umpteen times went through the washing machine and so my soul umpteen times goes through the purgatory the 21 grams you send to the devil but they keep returning to eat black juicy poisons in your hair.
Muses
All of my muses
die sooner or later they get infected with some strange sickness by the poems and I watch them leaving to be reborn in life of some other women who don't infect them with verses in whose eyes there is no universe no gardens in their souls no innocent witches at the stake no unhappy madame Bovary.
Count Dracula
Count Dracula is the lover wanted by every woman whose husband is an idiot Dracula does not suck blood to ladies because he is a count and his manners do not allow him to do such a thing Dracula sucks blood to the boring husbands who with the help of doctors wizards devils try to kill the count the passion sickness of their wives whose bodies twist and jiggle in an abnormal way in bed the sickness unknown to the husbands.
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