A Path to the Sea
By Liliana Ursu
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A Path to the Sea - Liliana Ursu
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1.
Celebration in the Season of Nettles
It’s Not a Good Time for Poets
The despair of my open hand
at the corner of my lips—
the tremor of my voice when I ask
in the Cibin market in Sibiu
for a kilo of cherries—these
are the fierce masks behind which I preserve myself
during days when another poet advises:
"Transform yourself into
something else, even a dragon. Forget
for a while you’re a poet. It won’t do
you any good. Can even
destroy you."
And I—who stubbornly continue to write poems,
to cull, to retrieve my youth
from photographs—gather lavender, stalk
by stalk, and spread it on my dead father’s desk.
As if life were just going on,
comforting and gentle, imaginable.
As if my flesh were, yes,
what it is: a fountain of stars.
Celebration in the Season of Nettles
I haven’t written any poems.
Not about the tribe of nettles and their uses,
nor about the cherry blossoms.
Winter felt endless
and my skittery sleep, like a startled rabbit
pursued by too many hunters, shook the dark.
There’s little news:
the daffodils herald a fanfare of gold
in the monastery garden, and
Cati’s old aunt was picked up by the wind
while hanging her patched blouses in the yard.
She’s all right now.
She reads her favorite psalms in the glow
of her small table lamp, its backlit shade
a collage of half-century-old news clippings,
her photograph at twenty
when she was crowned Miss Romania.
Another Saturday night and fireworks sparkle like a tiara
in the quiet March sky. Who knows
what the guests at the Marriott might be