MARINA MIJAKOVSKA

MARINA MIJAKOVSKA

Femininity

I talk to my fluids.

Where should I hide?

I am a coffin of yearnings!?

I am Otherness!

No more

No less

I!

I laugh with the silence.

The rhapsody of impulsions.

I grip the pen between my teeth!

I break bones of bans!

The Demon Of Homelessness

I fight with the demon in me

decapitated- devoiced- devalued.

I annihilate time and space!

Which is my home?

I'm rootless plant!

I'm homeless house!

I'm a

homeless,

faceless and nameless

weed!

Old Suitcase

I'm dressed up

in skin

of an

Elder.

Dry, senile and gray.

I burn the years,

I swallow the mountains,

I'm losing the verbs

in Past Perfect Tense.

I'm dressed up

in a soul

of an

Elder.

Centennial, passionable and blue.

I'm laughing with the light,

I'm undressing myself within cobwebs,

I lay down and listening to:

The stains and the children,

The grandchildren and the centuries,

The memories and the millennia...

MARINA MIJAKOVSKA

MARINA MIJAKOVSKA (1984) is a Macedonian poet, essayist, novelist and literary critic. She lives and works in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She has PhD of philology science.  Since 2013, she is a member of Macedonian Writer's Association. She has 10 books published. Poetry: Nomadic Soul (2010); Suitcases (2013); Psychoanalytic alchemy of passion (2013); Turquoise into summer (2015); Bed of Silence (2015); New Year’s children’s poems (2017) and Bony (2019). Short stories: Houses (2014). Books with essays and critiques: Polymer genre: Mailbox of manuscripts in an attempt (2016) and The Models of Gender Identification (2018). Part of poetic works and short stories from Mijakovska have been published in anthologies and periodicals in translation into: English, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Romanian, Polish, Czech, etc. She has won several literary prizes: "Karamanov" (2013); "Macedonian literary avant-garde" (2014); "Krste Chachanski" (2014); "Beli mugri" (2015) and etc.