Death Is Sometimes.

Volkova, Bronislava

Death Is Sometimes

 Death is sometimes only a word:
 Never more
 An end
 An endless nothing
 A corridor we will walk no more
 A shadow
 Still a moment
 to pretend that we are
 still a moment
 to dream
 still a moment to have
 the touch of skin
 when the heart beats already
 only so quietly
 when it
 is wrung
 with solitude
 when
 we hesitate to pronounce
 that word
 which is
 death

WLT AUTHOR FACTS

AUTHOR Bronislava Volkova (b. 1946)

COUNTRY Czech Republic

PRINCIPAL GENRES Verse, Criticism

Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Indiana University, Bloomington, BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA was born in Decin, Czechoslovakia, in 1946 and left the country for political reasons in 1974. She is the author of numerous books of poetry in Czech and English (some bilingual) as well as publications from the field of linguistic and literary semiotics, including Courage of the Rainbow (1993), A Feminist's Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (1997), and Prison Notes Smuggled into the Ears of Seafoam (1999). Her poetry has been translated into several languages and widely reviewed.