Eavesdropping myself

A dog is wailing
in my soul

Wailing
dolefully

Don’t know why

Don’t know whose
it is

It just wails in
somebody else’s soul

Confused

Tail not
wiggling

Come on doggy

Let’s bark
together to the moon

The moon-bone on
the sill

Let’s shred it
neat

Let’s chew it
all

The white
calcium

In this darkness

Peace unless we
find

Let’s throw the
moon as a boomerang

To hit our
sadness

Now go to sleep

Sleepless dog

Enough with your
wails tonight

I'll stay awake
for you

Little doggy,
don't know whose.

From: 
Vladimir Marku




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ABOUT THE POET ~
Vladimir Marku: novelist, poet, essayist, translator and interpreter. Born Durrës, Albania, October, 1950. Graduated at Foreign Languages Faculty, Tirana University. Worked in the oil industry. Presently teaches English at a Private Foreign Languages Institute., Has written twenty-six books, all published, in Albanian and some in English.


Last updated September 20, 2012