“Innocent” by Aksinia Mihaylova

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The Season of Delicate Hunger Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry

The first time I descended,
it was before the slow march of the fireflies
above the unreaped barley fields,
before the silent fingertips along the spine
before I taught myself to bind
sleep’s broken wing.
I sought another body
to feed life together,
but no one called my name.

The second time I descended,
I could already sound out the alphabet of small joys,
although the pomegranates on the tree of knowledge
were still unripe and so, to feed eternity,
we entered the slow river as lovers,
and exited as brother and sister:

between you and me—the light.

–Aksinia Mihaylova, 
translated from the Bulgarian
by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
The Season of Delicate Hunger:
Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry
(Accents Publishing)

Aksinia Mihaylova was born on April 13th, 1963 in the northwest region of Bulgaria. She holds a degree in Bulgarian philology from St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. She is a founding editor of the literary journal Ah, Maria. Aksinia is the author of three poetry books. Her most recent book,Unbuttoning of the Body (2011), won both the Hristo Fotev Annual Poetry Award and the Milosh Zyapkov National Award for Literature. She has translated over 30 books of poetry and prose, and has edited anthologies of contemporary Lithuanian and Latvian poetry. She lives and works in Sofia.

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