Dr. Aprilia Zank is a German poet, translator, editor and
lecturer in Creative Writing. She writes verse in English and German and has won various
prizes. Recent poetry collections are BAREFOOT TO ARCADIA, also
translated in Telugu, and READING THE SIGNS, launched in USA. Aprilia
has received wide recognition for her achievements. In 2018, she was awarded
the title “Dr. Aprilia Zank – Germany Beat Poet Laureate – Lifetime”, by the
National Beat Poetry Foundation.
IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD DAY
at the breakfast table
words jump
back and forth
we weave
them into newspaper verbiage
and TV
journal syntagmas
about the
war never seeming to come to an end
and salad
getting outrageously expensive
we gossip
about the neighbour
how he dusts
off his coat every morning
and fret
over the garbage
that hasn't
been collected for days
you ask me if
I slept well
I say yes, I
keep silent about
having waked
up at 3 o'clock at night
haunted by
memories of how my father died
after
fighting in vain
the
ravishers of his brains
nor do I in
any way intimate
your
personal delivery parcel
or that I
know you watch pay TV
after I fall
asleep
outside the
clouds dissolve into elusive patches
tiny birds
praise the clement sun
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