The Dallas streetcar runs between Downtown and Oak Cliff and goes back to 1872 when it was mule-drawn. Nine cars and eighteen mules. I google the one in Bucharest. Born in 1870, drawn by horses. I sip warm beer and listen to the reading. On the lit wooden stage, the Romanian writer wears an intoxicating […]
Clara Burghelea
Clara Burghelea is the author of two poetry collections: The Flavor of The Other (Dos Madres Press 2020) and Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press 2021). Her first poetry collection in translation, The Clear Sky, was published this year with Dos Madres Press. Her poems and translations appeared in Gulf Coast, Delos, Mantis, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She is Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation.
My Body Expelled Love
It made no sense how something that felt so good thieved me of choice, why my own flesh nursed new life only to spontaneously discard it, later every word tasted like debris in a clenched mouth and I didn’t answer your phone calls and bled next to a stranger on the E train, my nose […]