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Litterateur
November 2020
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Translated from Albanian by Arben P. Latifi
Alisa Velaj was born in 1982 in Albania. She has been shortlisted for the Erbacce-
Press Poetry Award in 2014. Her works have appeared in more than 100 print and
online international magazines. Her poetry collection, With No Sweat At All, will be
published by Cervana Barva Press in 2019.
Alisa Velaj
In a surfeit of air and light, this tree
by the river flush with crystal waters,
has been craving for a season of revitalization
ever with the same fervor!
Like scared grasshoppers,
winter and fall come and go on its branches,
creeping like shadows on towering mansions
that have for a roof a star-studded sky!
Rot, likewise,
creeps into the backbone of the surfeited tree
and keeps its secrets in the dark,
like a snuffed candle...
