It was a real pleasure to meet Anna Selby in July - she's a woman who gets excited about life, and a brilliant conversationalist. She is 'the glass of sparkling pop', a 'ski trip'. Thanks for coming to the Lounge Anna!
Two poems by Anna Selby
The First Time I Saw Your Winter
I rebranded snowdrops:
they turned into shame lilies,
juniper berries - Nordic furies,
leaves – luns: from the Old
meaning to let a breath
flee from idleness.
Your language
got more picasz, less hefda, more
shenğikï. Each word became a wire
birds sprang from.
Your turn now.
Shoo. Stand in front of the mirror
not knowing you’ve been named.
It will be as if, for the first time
ever, you’ve just seen yourself.
Luns, picasz, hefda, and shenğikï are fictitious words.
Washing My Father
after Doina Ioaind
Sadness moved into my house.
It stood in the corner
until I stopped watching it.
When it tired, it spoke out from the dark.
Its voice was sisterly.
How long will you stay here? I asked.
But sadness only speaks when it wants to.
When its whim spins and points you
in a new direction.
When I turn back,
the oranges are black in the bowl.
I hold my father’s jaw.
His tremor ratchets through me.
Why do you lift your father like a drowned man? Sadness asks.
Huge waves are breaking over the burnt-out pier.
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