Centre for Romanian Studies

Rodica Draghincescu (b. 1962)

Nocturnal embrace (II)
(Caresse nocturne II)

Evening is set

I swim to the bottom of my inner self

like a sea creature

I avoid memory

Under the bridge of solitude

I steal more secretly than the night

when I go hungry of limbo

I derail amongst the calendar days

tattooing their bodies with embers

“whom amongst you

will come to look for me?”

(Translated from French by Constantin ROMAN)
April 2005

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Rodica Draghincescu’s critical biography is in

“Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”

http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html