Blank
written by: Mihaela Melnic
“You write good poetry, you know,”
they used to tell me
after seeing those flowers and rivers
I had snatched from their natural
environment to bring at their feet.
I didn’t know where else to start
in those days, to be true and translucent,
so I rhymed as if I had lived a thousand lives
and only needed a blank page to fill up.
I allowed them to vivisect
my soul and they cut, carved, scraped
deeper and deeper,
and when they got to the bone
they said, “You write raw poetry, you know?”
So I went on and poured my viscera
into a few open, hungry minds.
It was a bit like emptying a reservoir that was
overflowing with dangerous fuel.
Mihaela Melnic lives and writes in Rome, Italy where her prose and poetry evolve and take different shapes with every new life experience. Her work has appeared in various journals and magazines, including Spillwords magazine, Lothlorien Poetry journal and Ariel Chart journal, both online and in print. She is the author of the bilingual poetry collection "Change of Seasons" and her latest work "Evermore", was co-authored and released in September 2021 through 17Numa Press.
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