Disarmed: English poem by Macedonian’s poetess Sanja Atanasovska
Disarmed: English poem by Macedonian’s poetess Sanja Atanasovska
In love and disarmed to the point of pain
I surrender to you
even when you reject me
the distance becomes a pit
with aristocratic color
the broken key in the lock
is my mortal enemy
and I have no other consolation
except to be jealous of birds
having wings
to reach you.
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.
