Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska

 

Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska

 

Winter Mosaic

 

The cells of the winter for which

I know how many crystals has drawn

on the eyelashes of the waiting

and with how many melted snowflakes

she kisses me when I sleep

are collecting in my equinox

 

They go down on my vertical “I”

so they can see themselves on the other side of the mirror

- with all of the question marks that are waking up

on the foggy surface of breathing

 

They are placing as pebbles in the mosaic of what has already happened

And there – the darkness inhabits the irises

because she knows that the dotted image of the memory

will never be complete

without the look of the shadow at it.

 

 

Yellow Insomnia

 

When I lay down late in the night

in the town with 80000 citizens and 5 main streets

the stretched tendon reminds me

of the yesterday evening marathon

financed by the big tadpoles

And I cannot fall a sleep

 

When I lay down late in the night

the jugular popped on my neck

reminds me

of the cat-and-mouse game

that is going around my yellow insomnia

 

When I lay down late in the night

my thought with strident handwriting

starts to write me messages

on yellow post-it sticky lineless notes

just to tell me that she cannot fall asleep.

 

Ash

 

on the edge of the little coffee table

a mirror was playing

with the reflection of the day,

while with a triple thread

the spider was trying to stitch

the word crumbled the other night

so it wouldn’t rest between the seams

of the wooden floor

 

the fire in the hearth was coughing

in the rhythm of the hand raising

 

in the room

in the middle of the sleepy fire

in the middle of the torn word

in the seams of the soul

it started to smell like something has been burnt

 

and while the tongue was tasting the black

the thought was getting into the frame by force

in the frame in which the pain

was dreaming about ashes

 

DANIELA ANDONOVSKA-TRAJKOVSKA

 

DANIELA ANDONOVSKA-TRAJKOVSKA (born February 3, 1979, Bitola, North Macedonia) is poetess, scientist, editor, literary critic, doctor of pedagogy, university professor. She works at the Faculty of Education-Bitola, St. “Kliment Ohridski” University-Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia and teaches the courses:  Methodology of Teaching Language Arts, Creative Writing, Critical Literacy, Methodology of Teaching Early Reading and Writing, ect.  She is co-founder of the University Literary Club “Denicija PFBT UKLO” and also of the Center for Literature, Art, Culture, Rhetoric and Language at the Faculty of Education-Bitola. She is member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association, and The Bitola Literary Circle, and was president of the Macedonian Science Society Editorial Council (for two mandates). She is editor in chief of the literary journal “Rast” issued by the Bitola Literary Circle, and also - editor in chief of the International Journal “Contemporary Dialogues” (Macedonian Science Society), and “Literary Elements” Journal (Perun Artis), several poetry and prose books. Besides her scientific work published in many international scientific journals (over 100 articles), and one university book “Critical Literacy”, she writes poetry, prose and literary critics. She has published one prose book: “Coffee, Tea and the Red Sky” (2019), and 8 poetry books: “Word for the Word” (2014), “Poems for the Margins” (2015), “Black Dot” (2017), Footprints” (2017), “Three” (2019), “House of Contrasts” (2019), “Electronic Blood” (2019), and “Math Poetry” (2020). She has won special mention at the Nosside World Poetry Prize (UNESCO, 2011), the award for the best unpublished poem at the Macedonia Writers’ Association Festival (2018), “Krste Chachanski” prize for prose (2019), National “Karamanov” Poetry Prize for poetry 2019, Macedonian Literary Avant-garde (2020). Her poetry was published in a number of anthologies, literary magazines and journals both at home and abroad, and her works are translated into: English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Romanian, Polish, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Bengali, and Italian language. She has translated many literary works from English, Serbian and Bulgarian language into Macedonian and vise versa. Poems are translated from Macedonian to English language by the author.