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Shaip Emerllahu

Troy of the horse

The geography of the Troy running horse expands with bitten knifes

you break out and your little mind doesn’t understand how we bite the fish bait when the shadows surround our bodies with the Troy of the horse through and through the foam of its mouth

fills our tables

nobody ruins their day, their fun

what remains from Troy despite of the horse with the whinny’s fraud 13 january 2011 Translated by Belfjore Qose

The apples of tetova

through the concerted centuries Tetova pruned and watered its own apple trees like rock salt you’ll want to burst when you spot them turned rotten from maggots in the end they’ve eaten so much their teeth went numb

Tetova, 1989

Where are we going

the tail-end of night stayed to host crickets the morning leaf exploded in anger where are we going now?! 1994 Translated by Craig Czury and Elvana Zaimi-Tufa

Dr Shaip Emërllahu was in North Macedonia. He got his PhD degree for Literature in Tirana. He is a lecturer at the State University of Tetova. Director of the International Poetry Festival “Ditet e Naimit”, Tetova. He has been awarded with many national and international literary prizes.