Afrodita Nikolova - Rattlesnakes

You and I
Snake's nest.

Rattlesnakes
In warm summer
Under a weeping willow
We're weeping in sleep suntrap
Burning deep down and downtown.

You and I suntrap and sleeplessness.
Exhausted and enclosed
For a life.
Dis-barefaced.
Pale tiny berries

People.

Poisonous and earthly
Under the weeping willow
Asleep
Back to back
Hands intertwined
People de-relict
And disvioleted

By rattlesnakes,

Rings

Around

The neck.

Translated from Macedonian: Zorica Petkoska

Afrodita Nikolova

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