Coffee colored eyes

A cloud fell in the vineyard
one man was talking to himself
the hills smelled of fire,
and the inhabitants of the neighboring village
they stole our sun.

There were four cups in front of me
I emptied them all to one,
too much for one day
too little for one person,
that’s why I wear brown eyes.

Sanja Atanasovska is a Macedonian journalist and poet. She has published five poetry collections: The Letter of the Ten Fingers, Testament of Life, Garden of Glass, My Saffron, and Aphrodite Runs in the Windmills. She has won two literary awards in Macedonia, Lesnovski Zvona and Karamanov. In 2019, she participated in a literary residency in Montenegro, and in 2017, she won third prize at the Pannonian Seagull International Literary Festival in Subotica, Serbia. Her book Garden of Glass also has an audio version. Her poems have been translated into many foreign languages.