Alexandre Mexis, FRANCE AFRICA DISEMBARCATION The PoemsAFRICAEbonyrather than ivorylike your skinyour hair, your eyesbut not your bones.They remain whitewashed up by your memory…AfricaArganor cocoalooted working bodymined entrailsraped for your gold,...

Maria Del Castillo Sucerquia, COLOMBIA ELEMENTAL MAGIC THE WEAVER The PoemsELEMENTAL MAGICI am the flame that quenches your thirstthe land that digs your goldthe wind that drowns your salt the water that lifts you up(English translation by Douglas Co...

Marija Dejanović, CROATIAThe PoemsAubergineYou know, this is where I'm from nowmother told me while watching the half of the gardenthat was full of the aubergines she'd grownwith too much care, like children, on a small plot of landshe'd bought with ...

Mattia Tarantino, ITALYThe Poems"L'età dell'uva" (Perrone, 2021)Vedi, non restano che i nostrifrutti sulla tavola:mia madre che li sbuccia; i loronomi che pendono dall'orloe cadono tra il pavimento e l'invisibile.Ora all'uva basta un soffio per marci...

Roberto García de Mesa, SPAINThe PoemsSongThe beginning of everything remains underground. It tries to germinate from the same source.The bow expels doubtand the being is transformed in each shot.How many have sought the seed!We are exhausted,submerg...

Ronny Someck, ISRAEL The stammering child's revenge The PoemsA POEM OF BLISSWe are placed on a wedding cakelike the two dolls, bride and groom.when the knife strikesWe'll try to stay on the same slice.(TR: Yair Mazor)*Revenge of the Stuttering C...

Tallulah Florez Prieto, COLOMBIA CONFUSION IN THE AIR WALT WHITMAN The PoemsCONFUSION IN THE AIRAs if it's late morning sliding, she holds the book at this hour, which is the siesta hour of all the neighbors, and so, she plans to reread some lines, a...

Kyriakos Anayiotos, CYPRUS The suitcase   Thethread The PoemsThe suitcaseI carry my black suitcase with difficulty.I can barely lift it off the floor.I carry it on my shoulders uphillI squeeze it under my armpits downhillI drag it in the ra...

Eleni Artemiou-Fotiadou, CYPRUSThe PoemsIF YOU KNOW THE TASTΕ OF FEAR The land is an island and its concern Late in the afternoon you are dressing a girl in a pink dress without her wings And yet she fliesin every frame in the living room Persistentl...

Alexandra Galanou, CYPRUSThe PoemsThe rag collector At night he wanders collecting wounded poems from the side of the road. He bandages the bleeding words. In his palms he encloses their worn-down nails. He combs their hair full of mud. He embra...

Andreas Georgallides, CYPRUSThe PoemsIN A NON-LOGICAL SPACEThe sea I am searching foris not made of water.It does not shift any waveno does it fear land.It is a sea builtto walk on - to flywhere the birds head toΣΕ ΜΗ-ΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΧΩΡΟΗ θάλασσα που ψά...

Kostas Gouliamos, CYPRUSThe PoemsThe Night`s Wild BeastsEverything is hidden in the words and the frozen telos is lost in the skyuntil the saturated universe becomes pieces: and sleepy facesescape in the cursed darkness φλύοντα σὺν φοίτῳ φρενῶνE...

Kleoniki Drougka, GREECE THE LENGUAGE OF THE HOUSE The PoemsHesitationWe need to talkI'm readythough I'm afraid·before I call youI flip through the notes again It took me the whole nightto writeto combine the syllablesNow that the sun insists on risi...

Alexandra Zambà, CYPRUS Far away  The long journey  The PoemsFar awayTraveling was the arrowcrazy flight tearing down mountainslonely and blurringa few houses and a treethirsty with lightstorming in colorlong waves and a famished sealooking...

Eleftheria Thanoglou, GREECE Correspondence under the light of the August Full Moon The PoemsCorrespondence under the light of the August Full MoonFor the war prisoners and missing Cypriots ofthe turkish invasion and imprisonment of 1974At first,they...

Kostas Katsonis, CYPRUSThe PoemsJUSTIFICATION OF LIFEHere, that we happened to live as excommunicatedhere, that we happened to followthe footprints of some invisible dreamscreated during some nightshere, that happens to us to sleep calmly.that the al...

Sofia Kolotourou, GREECE Αnomimata Grapto minima The PoemsSIN I am a Woman burdened early on with Virtue - they supposedly cleanse me of age-old sins. And I, a priestess of wanton libations, Hecate, Astarte of sexual love and demon lore, in a male-co...

Nikolas Koutsodontis, GREECE STONE MARTEN The PoemsSTONE MARTENThe living thing that frightenedthe sleep of my first decadewalked with immense statureon the rocks over my grandmother's house.It was bleak with hairy armsand a desire to see me dead.Sha...

Kostas A. Kremmydas, GREECEThe PoemsInstead of a CV I often confess to the district registrarto judicial representativeswho search in vain for my name in the directoriesI confess to the golden vestments of the bishopsTo the open windows that wer...

Triantafyllos H. Kotopoulos, GREECEThe PoemsYes there Is an erroneous seaYes there Is an erroneous seaYou should write down the truth, you told me, your truthNo safety distance of 1.5 and 2 meters, no masksYou should utter feelings properly and tear ...