Stella Radulescu
bells & bones
douleur—
a knock at the door
a finger cut off becomes
a simple word
say it
say it again
the world is watching your
bloody tongue
lifting the weight
of silence
*
brother again : the oak
panic
through windowpanes of darkness
human configuration
of time : arms arms falling
& rising
flowering : speak speak
to this mouth the long due Summer
the sky
the language ours
lost
in the grass
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu is the author of several collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania and France, including Insomnia in Flowers (2008), All Seeds & Blues (2011), I Was Afraid of Vowels (bilingual, Luke Hankins translator, 2011), Un cri dans la neige (Editions du Cygne), A l'écoute des ombres (Editions l'Harmattan). She writes poetry in English, French and Romanian and her poems have appeared in Laurel Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Seneca Review, Pleiades, Rhino, Louisville Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, among others, as well as in a variety of literary magazines in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Québec and Romania. She is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and the winner of two International Poetry Prizes awarded for her books published in France.