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Writer's pictureA Too Powerful Word

Stella Vinitchi Radulescu


Stella Vinitchi Radulescu holds a Ph.D. in French Language & Literature and has taught French at Loyola University and Northwestern University. Writing poetry in three languages (Romanian, French and English), she has published numerous books in the US, France, and Romania. Radulescu's French books have received several awards, including the Grand Prix de Poesie Henri-Noel Villard and the Prix Amelie Murat.





Self Portrait in Black & White


I am your closest friend when winter blows

and takes you away -


your body, full, exposed

to this language


of mine a shadow follows

each word-


as before my beauty soars to love-


I hate when coming back some days

I have to tighten my hair, give up my eyes,

my lips,


the damaged face of time.





Story of Us


if talking present childhood green


of fuchsia


the future of the race


it's quiet in the cemetery


thoughts skeletal


clean


washed by the moon


west of the western world the wharf-


he plays guitar


and we dance


drowned in our own sea


old manuscripts


weeds


your tongue as an omen





A Drop Of Woman Blood


and now a drop of woman


blood:


I swim down to the moon


the four horsemen greet me


with a smile



I follow : nothing ends


with a pale vowel


the I


soaked in twilight in bitterness


in gold



the coffin-


the cathedral some people drink


from my palms


some


forgot to wake up





The Bad Season


the bad season starts with a twisted tongue


west of the country I have lost:


losing


takes you to another word sweet melody of the night


my ears


my ribbons of darkness I could have been your name


hallucinating in a place like this



: a mouth


speeding into namelessness







Tea Time in Heaven


we painted the room

in black


silverware on the table

black cups black


hands

ready to grasp


we painted some birds

on our plates


and then

we ate them


alive





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