Poems by Stefan Markovski
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Metaphysics of Love Under an iridescent rainbow of spices shipwrecking through the air under the awning of Andromeda awaits a portal whose path is through the flesh of the newly arrived in the country that no one tries to conquer. The guards in the sky agree that your angel tastes like rose someone’s falling wings are sending their regards to the planet that eats its unconceived children impatiently waiting her deathtouch or your nose and your fingers yearning for holy spices, god's dusts. The Smile of the Ice-Cream Man The smile of the old ice-cream man on the square rises again in the chests of the passengers a smell of a lost wind rains around the children's heads and drips them with holy water from the cotton candy clouds while street dogs are baptized in blurred puddles the thirsty eyes of the old ice cream man wait to drink from the sky that the magician with a colorful tie lays down in front of everyone puts it in a hat a paper sheet is left blank up there on which street harmonicas with dusty notes draw abstract expressionism resembling a watermelon and a shade of a weary summer. From behind a balcony on a cracked facade five to six swallows set off to find us following line segments and incidentally they meet on the other side of the planet the ice cream man sits on a box of old wood waits for the fall of each drop back into the fountain the blunt step of the second hand of the watch and the rain set to fall strictly at noon supposed to whitewash into a dream the air from the nearby meadow where the dogs spurt, passing on a chariot the wide untold smiles. |
Stefan Markovski is a contemporary Macedonian writer, poet, screenwriter and philosopher.
Born in the town of Gevgelija (01. 12. 1990), he’s completed primary and secondary education in his hometown, graduating on both the Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philology and the Institute of Philosophy of Ss. Cyril and Methodius State University of Skopje. He’s obtained a MA in Screenwriting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in Skopje with a feature film script titled “My Name Is Freedom” and theoretical explication of the potentials of the hybrid crime-drama genre within the future of Macedonian cinematography. Markovski’s writing career and contribution to modern Macedonian literature has granted him literary prizes and honors in Macedonia, including the “Macedonian Literary Avant-garde” for a book of short stories, “Petre M. Andreevski” Prize for novel, “Beli Mugri” for a poetry book, “Krste Chachanski” for a book of short stories, The “7-th November Award” of Gevgelija municipality, “Knjizevno pero” of Croatian Writers’ Association (HKD), prize of UNESCO for Macedonian writers up to 30 years of age etc. Mentioned in anthologies of modern Macedonian literature, participating in festivals around the country and abroad, some of Markovski’s works have been published in over 20 languages. He’s taken part in the Other Words literary residency in San Sebastian in 2018. Markovski is a member of Macedonian Writers’ Association, the Macedonian center of the International Theatre Institute, the European poetry platform “Versopolis” and other international associations. He’s the chief editor of the oldest Macedonian literary magazine – Sovremenost as well as the poetry collections of the project Metric caravan. |
