Poems by Jordan Danilovski
MIDNIGHT
Midnight That which is not mine calls for me And I belong to it with every call A hesitant woman along the street Breaks the darkness into waves I scream behind the windows Of my room built upon my screams In this City permeated with silence Where mute faces and rambling smiles Cast spells over the walls I hesitate along the street Far away is my room I flap with white pages in the darkness And every crumb of darkness sticks upon me. NARCISSUS Everything is the same in this mirror Which forces me to obedience And to repeated prefigured movements The faces are empty drifts of the night Through which what I once was now returns as fear As a lost child who receives death Always heading toward the dust Across the words I reach the sods Without sensing what is woven Under my hand in that overflowing darkness Which secretly steals my face In that mirror of obedience There follows a night of retreats and flights Needful steps for the pure movement Puzzled looks Merciless ticking of the clocks And still, neither flock, nor bird, nor beast And now I am the voice which repeats me Above the water that quenched my thirst |
About the poet
Jordan Danilovski is a poet, literary critic, essayist, novelist. Born 15th January 1957 in Debar, Republic of Macedonia. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. Member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association. Published poetry books: Fire-eater (1982), Movement, Space and Time (1984), Inner Language (1986), Multiplying Silence (1989), Simona and tales (poetry for children, 1991), Presentiment (1992), Simona is a gold piece (poetry for children, 1992), Daybreak (1994), Ona Mona to Simona (poetry for children, 1994), Book tma (1996), The Wild nest (1998), Mystic (1999), Book Navi (2002), Book OM (2004), Whispered One (2006). One of the founders of Stozer literary review and the literary festival of the Macedonian Writers’ Association. Awards include “Miladinovci Brothers”, “Aco Sopov” etc. |