AND
I ache for some people
like someone who aches for a lost hairpin,
carefully unused,
although
I could have put it on some day
and it might have made a match.
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 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)
