Pitcher | Miroslava Panayotova

I want to drink water from a pitcher
in the room under the sun,
with the flowers,
water overflowing from the pitcher,
feeling the splash before the pitcher broke.

I want to echo the music from the radio,
to lean against the wall,
under the shed with tobacco strings
next to the garden.

I want to listen in the breath of the earth,
to believe in its eyes,
to melt into it moaning with distrust,
to get through the corn and scratch my feet
in the soil and foliage.

Let the wind rustle before going to sleep.

To look for the past in a dream,
non-existence—in the dark rooms.
To bring water from the well on the path,
the song on the path
coming down from the cloud
in blue and warm.

To bring faith from the well,
filling my breast with stars,
hands full of fireflies,
dizzy from the ground,
covered with leaves and plums,
and fragrant rotten apples,
the Earth, laden with blossom.

Where is the house?

Miroslava Panayotova…

…(Bulgaria) graduated from Plovdiv University, specialty Bulgarian philology and English language. She has published poems, stories, tales, aphorisms, essays, criticisms, translations, articles and interviews in periodical and collections. She has published the following poetry books: Nuances, 1994, God of the Senses, 2005, Pitcher, 2014, Whisper of Leaves, 2017, Green Feeling, 2018; two books of stories: An End, and Then a Beginning, 2017, Path of Love, 2018; two eBooks: Laws of Communicatons —Aphorisms, 2018, Old Things —Poetry, 2018. She is a member of the Union of the Independent Bulgarian Writers and a member of Movimiento Poetas del Mundo. She is a member and a coordinator in the team of the e-journal Ghorsowar, too. Miroslava Panayotova is an ambassador of IFCH (International Forum for Creativity and Humanity). Her verses have been translated to English, Spanish, Greek, Albanian, and Uzbek.