fills the ears with windborne deafness
dries up the eyes, pulls at
the clothes the hair flaps
I have no other flag.
...
A memory of passenger trains
A long journey
She is only five, six, seven years old
...
One who is a child and
goes alone to the shore, looking at the water
One who is walking with a backpack and
...
I watched
I was seven
I had no need to be paid attention to
With a mouth half-open
...
Nothing more playful than
the young white goat,
nothing more milky, nothing more spring-like
than the kid
...
water on the asphalt
a shining puddle beneath an arid sky
always a hundred yards ahead
...
by tasteless fruit scentless flowers
arranged - one and the same - colored
the eyes are fooled but no
...
Ekaterina Yossifova was born in Kjustendil, Bulgaria, and studied Russian Philology at Sofia University. She has worked as a teacher, journalist and literary editor. She has published twelve collections of poetry. Ekaterina Yossifova has also written books for children. In 2004 she was awarded the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture's Book of the Year Award for Upside Down. She has also received the Ivan Nikolov Award for her life's work.)
Up Above, The Wind
fills the ears with windborne deafness
dries up the eyes, pulls at
the clothes the hair flaps
I have no other flag.