“News” by Roza Boyanova

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The Season of Delicate HungerOn the 7th of May the sea pulled away from Balchik.
the standing wave actually paused
to wait for the amazement.

The minarets of Taj Mahal are leaning dangerously….
An airplane with three tons of drugs crashed….
Still the good news hides
in the cave of your silence, Ali Baba—
imprint of lipstick
on a shadow.

While I toyed with the unread
I put a few questions
in random order
with unvaried tone:
does deep meaning hide
behind every ordinary thing?
and do the cosmic dimensions
originate from there?

Suddenly
the past equated itself to today.
But no matter on which side
of the equation I stand,
the scale swings
in favor of the other.
I lighten like a pressed flower….

And not a single piece of good news.

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

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Roza Boyanova was born in the village of Rabrovo. She holds a degree in Bulgarian philology from Konstantin Preslavski University in Shumen and has worked as a newspaper correspondent and a lecturer in children’s literature at several universities. In 1993, Roza founded Mythical Birds, a creative writing organization for children and youth in Bourgas. Since then, she has compiled and edited over 40 books of creative works by the group’s members. Roza is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Drafts of the Milky Way, published in 2011. She is the recipient of the 2007 Ivan Peichev National Poetry Award in Bulgaria.

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