December
- Apr 19, 2024
- 1 min read
by Réka Nyitrai
In Sweden a man whispers my name and wants to lie down with me in a field of tulips. But in Sweden it’s mostly winter and they don’t really have tulip fields. The man has a fever and thinks snowflakes bleed loneliness. For weeks he dreams he is a reindeer and I am the goddess of both the hunt and chastity. When you love a person, you want them
to leave you, so that you can dream of them…
wrote Max Voloshin to Marina Tsvetaeva.
I agree - trapped in that man’s dream
I want to wake
long before the bullet I shoot
at the reindeer
returns to me.
Réka Nyitrai is a spell, a sparrow, a lioness’s tongue — a bird nest in a pool of dusk. She is the recipient of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for her debut haiku volume While Dreaming Your Dreams. Moon flogged, her full-length debut poetry collection, will be out with Broken Sleep Books in 2024.
