​Another Boundary

the old men left
the young hearts boundaries
stones broke out from their roots
like a dry bread split on the knees

the dough didn't rise anymore
under the hand stitched towel
brick dust is sifted slowly
on a spider's nest
in the bread oven's window

next winter will pass quickly
everything will freeze under cold chimneys
like in a dry ant mole
cut with a scythe

only in March when the earth
will germinate its fangs
the house vineyard will cry
with cold sweat in each new shoot

at Easter all great grandchildren
barely having learned to walk
will step over dandelion flowers
burning in the yard
lightly and without traces



Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu is a Romanian poet who also translates her work in English. Her poems and haiku were published in three Romanian poetry journals, in the Indian poetry journals Conifers Call and Bizz Buzz, in a Romanian haiku anthology, a bilingual haiga anthology, a poetry anthology in Romania and in Wordgathering. Her works also appeared in Ploc!, Asahi Shimbun, Sketchbook, the Romanian magazine Haiku, Notes from the Gean, Multiverses, Daily Haiga, Ardea and Mainichi Daily News.