Leila Samarrai




1

The forests sleep
Not knowing
About the terrified grass
And its sigh
Especially
In time of wind
And herbal precipitations








2

Grey grey shrines knitting their tuques on the icy floes
Under the spreading sycamore tree
Wrapped in nakedness
They miss the rich soil
To proclaim their rich presence
They lack the rich clothes
To be who they are

And Fir, in green dresses
(quite a coquette)
are you hear to gloat?
While the dance of drooping trees
 greets the day with a look
into the heart of the high places.

And what am I doing here
Amongst the snows
My skull is hatching sleeping worlds
lined up in a white mare…
Still, I’m going through the cumuli
under the savage sky

While unease ripens in the fog
Lulled inside the years
A bloodied sun comes out in the west








3

Snow covers things...
Chasing the sun to nowhere
Scrorpions rise their stings and tails
Snakes pour their saliva into
A travesty of ice.
Through the heated leaves glasses
He world takes shape of fuzzy patches of light
Towering monoliths merged in splendid isolation
The  pigeons resume their never-ending quest for scraps.
Venoms evolved
A black eagle ripping meat to ribbons
The slopes of two ancient volcanoes
separates close friends
One gave birth to flooded green bamboos
Like medallions
The volcanoes are soaking wet
 In another, the bloodthirsty stone is glowing
Another world, another time, another existence.
In the winter time, in glacial garden
A chasm of generosity Is giving the vastness
between the foaming rocks.


Leila Samarrai

Leila Samarrai: was born on October 19th, 1976 in Kragujevac, Serbia. She writes poetry, short stories, and plays, her work largely containing the motives of fantasy and humour. Her debut collection of poetry „The Darkness Will Understand“ won the First prize of the competition organized by the Student cultural centre of Kragujevac in 2002. She has had her work published in numerous local magazines, both in print and electronic form. Some of her notable works include the collection of short stories „The Adventures of Boris K.“ by Everest Media and (as co-author and critic) „Poetry Against Terror: A Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism Kindle Edition“. Her works were published in Serbian, Hungarian and English. She has won numerous awards for her written works, including the third place as a representative of Serbia for the aphorism „Stars and Us“ of the „Beleg“ competition and three separate awards in the „3-5-7 – A Story in a Moment“ story competition, as part of the „Helly Cherry“ competition, both in 2011. She currently lives in Belgrade with her five cats. Samarrai uses absurdist and the elements of farce in her plays. She favours surreal short stories, horror fiction, satire and humoresque, enjoying the vaudeville style of structure interwoven with the style of “Pythonesque” stories. Her goal in literature is to weave fantastic realism into horror fiction, as well as utilizing magical realism and the surreal.