Emily
Thirty-one days ago, when the daffodil sunshine
ribonned the air,
a man and a woman created what is now
200 grams of love.
Time, happiness ‒all things seemingly
transparent ‒
have begun a new rhythm.
After five weeks, the woman started beating
with two hearts;
then the little body developed two eyes, two
nose holes,
two breasts, two hands. It wrote a sonnet
without a single word
about two human beings growing into a third.
Eleni Cay is a Slovakian-born poet living in Manchester, UK. Her poems were published in two pamphlets – Colours of the Swan and Autumn Dedications – and featured in MK Calling 2013 & 2015. She’s widely published in anthologies such as Mother’s Milk, poetry magazines such as Envoi and Atticus Review. A full collection of translated poems was published by Parthian Books in July 2017.
Eleni can be heard reading her poem
exclusive to the Acumen website until
the end of November on