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.