{"id":672,"date":"2009-06-18T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/revista\/?p=672"},"modified":"2009-06-18T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:40:26","slug":"poems-by-adriana-boagiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Adriana Boagiu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adriana Boagiu<\/strong> is a poet whose lines carry a wordy town into flowery flurries of memory and eroticism, both ingenuous and insidious. Her sound skinning sonnets know how to allure and kill softly, while her irregular-iambic-pentameter or vers libre riffs shake and caress with mixed mercilessness and affection. I am happy to greet her shrewd and artful voice of which I am sure we are going to hear a lot more not after long. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tChris Tanasescu<\/p>\n

\/\/\/<\/p>\n

Skin Treatise on Transition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Craiova. Lagrange. Vectors. Pascal. And
\nthe anatomy of the magnificent
\nfrog. Et Goe, l\u2019enfant terrible,
\n terrible comme la Langue Roumaine\u2026<\/p>\n

Repetition is the mother of learning
\n or was it the mother of platitude?!…
\n I remember my father\u2019s fading voice:
\n \u201cUtchites!…Utchites!…Utchites!…U!…\u201d<\/p>\n

Now I hear the humming of the trolley
\n And a Babylonia of melodies
\n And the sudden siren call of money
\n In the rhythm of my recondite thoughts:<\/p>\n

How awfully alike intellectual
\n prostitution and self-fulfillment sound!… <\/p>\n

\/\/\/<\/p>\n

Lo -Li -Ta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lo is for your looming angelic figure.
\nLi is for lustful lips like ripe tangerines.
\nTa is for touching your ethereal
\nsoul. My Lolita, my life, my heart, mine!…<\/p>\n

There are moments when I smell his beckoning
\nvoice piercing my breasts and I hear his
\nmature hand grabbing at my childhood
\nand when his hand is silent his eyes start <\/p>\n

talking to me and they keep whispering
\n the alluring words: Lo-lii-ta, Lo-lii-ta!\u2026
\n and then my other heart hurries to answer
\n but, strangely enough, falls into a deep,<\/p>\n

indomitable sleep!\u2026When I wake up,
\n I have forgotten all about my dream\u2026<\/p>\n

\/\/\/<\/p>\n

The Southern Jewel<\/strong><\/p>\n

the proud Gypsy welcomes
\nthe morning<\/p>\n

with cries of
\nMulticulturalism<\/p>\n

Pigtails flutter in the wind
\n and barely touch the
\n variegated garments<\/p>\n

Dappled languages converge
\nwith vapid remarks
\nof Marginalization <\/p>\n

Begging life,
\nSinging sorrow,
\nShouting identity,
\nLamenting fate,
\nAware of us,
\nthe Multimillionaires of Doom.<\/p>\n

\/\/\/<\/p>\n

Mournful<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morose acquaintances beguiling inquietudes
\n Of lost morality in cruel, dead lovers\u2019 hands.
\nA dream of demon love breaks asunder
\nDispersing bits of blissful tragedy.
\nDeceitful damsels in distress inviting
\nTiresome monologues about the incidence
\nOf death. A mad girl shouting in the street
\nAbout the philosophy of meat conceit.
\n A beggar lamenting the loss of his
\n Possession: a merry-go-round of moody genii.<\/p>\n

\/\/\/<\/p>\n

Hometown Hickey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t cry, my love, I ran away because
\nof You! Because of your oppressive stench
\nof black pitch! And the irrelevance of your quietly
\nsuffocating cements! And your greatly <\/p>\n

commendable lack of pulse! And the grotesque
\njuxtaposition of your drowsy pink
\nand my vivid black! And your duplicate
\nsunrises like upturned sunsets in disguise! <\/p>\n

Do you miss me in your lonely, sullen
\n nights? Can you hear I\u2019m praying for you to
\n come back? Can you still taste the happiness
\nwe shared on your saddened lips? There is something<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been meaning to tell you: when you
\nleft, a pink blossom fell into your hair\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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