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Saturday, 17 May 2025

Apetites - Elena Alexieva

I will look incresingly like something eaten
I will be somebody's spoon of honey
unless I turn into another thing

appearing more often
in a lacquered black bra and bare
nerves I will cause my own eating

meeting people I will talk to them
about birds of paradise in green filigris
about bottichelli and maidens heavy with suggestions
about feelings puffed and sweet like cakes
full of cream

the listeners will stare
the tension will creep up like a yellow palm
it will stretch their tendons into strings
and play a sonatina

I will look increasingly like something eaten
Unless I turn into another thing right now

I snap out on time, I sign
my first name
on the act committed

and since it's winter
I vomit snow over my native town

Elena Alexieva (born 1975) Bulgaria
Translated by Kapka Kassabova
Source: Slovoto

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