Sin has formed on their mouths, and they
assault us.
We are silenced into a void.
Souls singled out for torture.
Somewhere, someone is mourning for the
body of a brilliant one.
Man or woman, it doesn’t matter.
The tears in this country, an entrance
to a void… shadows touching skin like frost.
Gloria Mindock is editor of Cervena Barva Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, Doppelganger (S.Press), Oh Angel (U Soku Stampa) and has a poetry book forthcoming called, Nothing Divine Here (U Soku Stampa). Gloria has been published in numerous journals including River Styx, Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, Ibbetson St., WHLR, and UNU: Revista de Cultura in Romania with translations by Flavia Cosma.