Poetry from The Literary Review




Winter

Ioana Ieronim



it all passed in dreams   heat     torpidity
as if spinning in the den of a newly born bearcub
that no one may see and know
wrapped up in snows within the belly of the earth—except for the angel
who with a square rule and compass
gathers us all into a simplissima figura
placing the pointer at the spot
where the sky sticks to the earth



Translated from the Romanian by Carrie Messenger