on my lips
hands grow & I teach silence
to children of dust to children
of wind
who came with apples & without--
you cannot see the void
with open eyes
the shark your friend tells you the truth
one life two lives the ocean rolls
in you--
you are redeemed going away
& coming back
with the weather I hear your steps
along the shore cast off a tear
& it will rain
Author Bio:
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, Ph.D. in French Language & Literature, is the author of several collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania and France. She writes poetry in English, French and Romanian and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Pleiades, Louisville Review, Laurel Review, Rhino, Wallace Stevens Journal, Seneca Review among others, as well as in a variety of literary magazines in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. Her last collection of poetry I scrape the window of nothingness - new & selected poems was released in 2015 from Orison Books Press. She lives in Chicago.