"Sediment" by Milena Makani
Sara Blazevic | Smoke
You insist on feeding me
fish from the kitchen where you work,
blackening leeks and peppers
on the grill by the pond,
looking up only to look at me.
You insist this is love,
that this is how you love.
I am trying an experiment where,
here and there, I succumb;
I let a foreign softness in.
After we eat we sit by the water,
watch the sky darken in its cold mirror.
What do you call it when
something invisible catches fire?
When I was small my father pressed
my finger to the window and taught me
the word for lightning in his language.
The coals flare in the wind which runs
through the trees, scattering thrushes. Sijeva.
I want to say Some things take time.
No, that’s wrong; I want to say
Some things take time away from you.
fish from the kitchen where you work,
blackening leeks and peppers
on the grill by the pond,
looking up only to look at me.
You insist this is love,
that this is how you love.
I am trying an experiment where,
here and there, I succumb;
I let a foreign softness in.
After we eat we sit by the water,
watch the sky darken in its cold mirror.
What do you call it when
something invisible catches fire?
When I was small my father pressed
my finger to the window and taught me
the word for lightning in his language.
The coals flare in the wind which runs
through the trees, scattering thrushes. Sijeva.
I want to say Some things take time.
No, that’s wrong; I want to say
Some things take time away from you.
Sara Blazevic is a Croatian-American poet and labor organizer from New York City. Her work has been published in Thrush, APIARY, the Newport Review, Northern Colorado Writers, Pacifica Literary Review, and the Bellingham Review. She is a graduate of the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program.
Milena Makani, born in 1984 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a German contemporary artist based in London, UK. Makani’s deeply psychological paintings depict inner landscapes characterized by layered textures, fluid forms and gradients. Employing acrylics, watercolours and inks on mineral stone sheets, she blends control and spontaneity through the interplay of organic process and manipulation. Makani lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - a source of constant pain. Her works channel the mindfulness, gratitude and energy of her lived experience, as she investigates themes of resilience, serenity, joy, stoicism and fragility.
The German artist has exhibited her work in the UK, Bulgaria and Iceland and her paintings are featured internationally in various private collections.
The German artist has exhibited her work in the UK, Bulgaria and Iceland and her paintings are featured internationally in various private collections.
