pagan prayer

what is unspeakable comes

on foot

tramples down the grass

I feel like opening hundreds

of eyes and stepping

on my body

: inside

a scream         next door the light—

dead etymology and broken

sounds

the hand can’t say hand the heart

can’t spell its name

I worship the night & the hollow

face of the moon      O, God

open the route

cut a mouth in this desert

 

 

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).