Carmen Firan

Queens, New York, USA

 

 

Carmen Firan, Romanian born, has published more than twenty books including, novels, short stories, essays and poetry. Since 2000 she has been living in New York. Among her recent books and publications are Changing Your Sign, Changing your Destiny. An Immigrant’s Horoscope (New Meridian Arts), Interviews and Encounters (Poems and Dialogue with Nina Cassian, Sheep Meadow Press), Inferno (SD Press), Rock and Dew (Sheep Meadow Press), Words and Flesh, (Talisman Publishers), The Second Life (Columbia University Press). Her work appears in translation in magazines, anthologies, and books in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, etc. www.carmenfiran.com

 

 

Poem completed 24th March 2020

 

 

Meeting the Unknown

 

 

The Unknown reached us one night

 

The cherry trees had bloomed

 

And the world was readying for Spring

 

Dandelions were flying into unknown

Where the wind was blowing from

Frozen snowflakes were falling

At the end of March

At the end of the alphabet as we knew it

 

Or at the beginning of another world

 

As unknown as the uninvited

Shown-up out of the blue.

The wind shouts into loudspeakers:

 

Stay at home! You too.