Danijela Trajković

 


Danijela Trajković (1980) is a Serbian poet, writer, reviewer and translator. Her book “22 Wagons” has been published by The Academy of Arts, Knjazevac, 2018. Her work has been translated into many languages and published in journals, anthologies and newspapers worldwide. She lives and works in Vranje. 





Linden Tea

We have your linden tea
In the balcony that roses
Keep from the outside world
The sky is ordinary
The air of big cities
The day loses its strength
We don't understand each other fully
And you say it would be boring
If we did
And that your scorn
For the one that will have me
Is much stronger than the tea.




Three Act Death


Act I

My childhood love
killed in war.
Act II

My two-year-old son
most likely has autism.

Act III

You
stopped loving me.

21 Grams


                 For S. Lj.


My soul tears apart


like the threads


of a torn dishcloth


that umpteen times went


through the washing machine


and so my soul umpteen times


goes through the purgatory


the 21 grams you send to the devil


but they keep returning


to eat black juicy poisons


in your hair.






Muses


All of my muses


die sooner or later


they get infected with some


strange sickness by the poems


and I watch them leaving


to be reborn


in life of some other women


who don't infect them with verses


in whose eyes there is no universe


no gardens in their souls


no innocent witches at the stake


no unhappy madame Bovary.





Count Dracula


Count Dracula is the lover


wanted by every woman


whose husband is an idiot


Dracula does not suck blood to ladies


because he is a count


and his manners


do not allow him to do such a thing


Dracula sucks blood


to the boring husbands


who with the help of doctors wizards devils


try to kill the count


the passion sickness of their wives


whose bodies twist and jiggle


in an abnormal way in bed


the sickness unknown to the husbands.


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