From Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, available on Amazon
What do you see when you look at night?
The kraken sleeping
in the murk
His thoughts
would change the color
of whom
he once abhorred.
The moon is faint
and builds
the hauberk
of bark
around the dark
with armatures
that are about
to conquer down
the light.
What do you see when you look at love?
Kraken kisses and embraces
of a woman of innocence
unwise, unadorned
untamed.
Slumbering in green tentacles
vividly electric
to pursue in night
unnumbered words
astray from his
wondrous grey
to host in the parlor
the Someone
they desired.
Her untamed soul
drags her love
like Simoom
grabs the grains of sand
in hurdles and pains.
We cannot step
outside love’s iron songs.
Its music
brings falter
in the bones.
It is the alphabet
that guides the waters
to stay together
and roar
North of the wind
glisten
South of the sun…
© Iulia Halatz
Art by Michael Hutter.
She says: “Be the one who cares, make words so disruptive that they create new worlds, hopes and dreams. Even if we are unhappy dinosaurs and find shelter in an Iron Tale or ruminate about feeling too much, whilst declaring colorless apparel, we should take power and strength from our stories.”
Her published poems can be found in The Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I.
