THE THING

that no one else gave, 

no one else took. 

It grows.

It fits into my grandma’s palms

that break the bread.


Translated by Hristo Dimitrov / Edited by Tom Phillips

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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