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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