full landscape with no exit

I didn’t do it      : the crisp light by

itself mounted the statue

and silence bleeds

in my throat

mauve-orchid the color of your eyes

             full mauve like a cathedral

             opens a secret door :

stay on page so you could breathe

but breathing is a flower with

           sharp teeth        or stop

thinking of me or break my bones

and let them shine        a stellar city

under the sea

Author of the article

Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, Romanian-American poet, Ph.D. in French, is the author of many collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania and France. She writes poetry in English, French and Romanian and her poems have appeared in a variety of literary magazines in the United States, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. Her last two collections of poetry I Scrape the Window of Nothingness (2018) and Traveling with the Ghosts (2021) were published by Orison Books. She has publications in Asheville Poetry Review (issue 27), Pleiades (vol. 38, issue 1), and Laurel Review (vol. 44, issue 1).