November 2018
The poem “In the new-moon sky” is published in “Writing In A Woman’s Voice”, edited by Beate Sigriddaughter, showcasing women’s writing.
Beate Sigriddaughter has been the poet laureate of Silver City, New Mexico, since 2017. She publishes a blog called Writing In A Woman’s Voice, where she features other women’s poetry. For her own poems, she has been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize.
https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2018/11/in-thenew-moon-sky-bymarina-kazakova-in.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR06n7ulrd3aV-iXjREozpluJax1nIRdfITzYaqHs7FVjhbANvHOcsCxu7s
***
In the new-moon sky
Mars outshines all stars
except the one –
the Goddess,
the second from the Sun,
born from the sea foam,
the brightest.
In fifteen eighty-one
(before Christ)
the Babylonians called it
‘Queen of the sky,’
much later
the Romans worshiped Venus
as Goddess of Good Fortune.
The ropewalker is lying
on the August grass,
taking a star bath,
under the meteor shower.
They say one day on Venus
is longer than 12 months,
the ropewalker is trying
to envisage it:
to live a day and night
that last eternity –
an annum.
What an adagio!
The falling space-flowers
form the garden of roses
where the ropewalker,
in levitation,
is being transformed
into the sea foam,
into the Babylon,
into the Romans,
into the silent,
loving,
hate-free
universe.
