Every time I

Every time I

take a step towards you,

the sound of my chains 

betrays me.


Translated by Hristo Dimitrov / Edited by Tom Phillips

The Bulgarian  text first appeared in “The men and women I have been” (Janet-45, 2017 )

Dimana Yordanova

Dimana Yordanova was born in 1986 in Veliko Tarnovo. She graduated from a fine arts secondary school, then studied Balkan Studies. She has published three books of poetry: The men and women I have been (2017); Down the backbone (2018); and Letters to Nia, to whom I did not give birth (2020), all three of them printed by the Janet publishing house. In 2019 her first book for children came out: What a mess! (Janet 45) 

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