Poetry – EuropeNow Journal

Storm Warning by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir,

Translated by Kara Billey Thordarson Gray carpet and gray chairs and gray walls and gray table and gray cocktail glasses and gray fax machine and gray door frame and gray neighbors and gray staircase and gray street and the gray sky and our pale running feet

Literary

Borrowed Like Grief by Haydar Ergülen

Translated by Derick Mattern Once poetry was like a faithful hound whenever I was sad he’d sense it and come comfort me

Poetry

Pianist’s Fingers by Berta García Faet

Translated by Kelsi Vanada love’s cry lingers incomplete like a half-articulated sneeze love is a half-sneeze cut off by another sneeze creaking a reflex scandalously i rest my skull on your sweet skull a phonograph before the sonata in C major accentuates and duplicates the cravings and increases wellbeing and exists