It is Ayatollah Khomeini’s early days. Marina Nemat is only 16 when they arrest her, after leading a strike in high school. Sent to prison, she is tortured, and sentenced to death. The sentence is then changed for life imprisonment. The payment is to marry her interrogator, lose her catholic…
Category: Literature
Dark, bleeding, noiseless days
i. Monday was dark scented with coffee lethargic as northern fog ii. Thursday –you said can let those colours bleed –I stared iii. Today is noiseless only peaceful whispers interrupt with inky voices _____Adriana Citlali XV-I-MMXV The words I just wrote are my first try at…
The refusal (PrimeNoPo version)
Today at dVerse we are combining mathematics and poetry, as it is done in the OULIPO form (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle) introduced in 1960 by French mathematician Francois de Lionnais and writer Raymond Queneau. The OULIPO is a playful form in which one takes an existing poem an exchanges each…
On trueness and reality
Claudia: How real do you get in your poetry? I craft poems as a reflection of my instantaneous reality My poetry evolves with feelings evoked by old memories mixed with recent experience sparkled with salty tears or fugitive laughs Anell: How true is it?…
On writing a poem
You: How do you write a poem without knowing what to say? I start by attempting that impossible silence in my head while your question bounces with varying emphasis filling in that luxurious void so hard to come by The bounces start changing frequency sometimes they go into resonance …
Moonlit chronicle
Snow outside my window It’s Wednesday in November 2:21AM No wind Sleepless thoughts I download the app Adequate sleep? –it asks I need negative numbers! Sleeping time? I hit zero Tired? Very Would you rate us now or later? I quit –> DELETE 2:30AM Snowdust in the balcony Moonlight dancing…
American sentences in Norwegian winter
23:21 Exchange sanity for a stranger’s kiss. It’s an apple, bite it! 08:21 Reject the thought, forget the dream: reality –a daily routine. 19:21 Now wonder if this wind still remembers the warmth of his daring lips. _____Adriana Citlali XXV-XI-MMXIII American sentences (17 syllables each) for…
Room 101
What do you hide behind your irides? I hide butterflies worms numbers a chameleon and a feather No, that’s not right It is eight butterflies no worms ten caterpillars and two serpents odd numbers plus a prime and an irrational three fractions one theorem a chameleon and a blue feather…
Shiny glass
What do you see? Memory or possibility? Is she the girl the lady a scientist ? lost female or the woman you don’t know? Tell me What do you fear? How do you dream? What’s behind your lips? Just stop the silence End this reflection Close my eyes _____Adriana…