Alex Plescan (Romania/Australia) is a Romanian writer who lives in New Zealand. Born in 1967, he made his debut in literary magazines in 1981. Alex published prose, poetry, essay and critique and one of his plays was staged in Bucharest for three years. He is a co-founder of the Literary Club, a new aesthetical movement launch in Romania in the early 90s. Alex writes in Romanian and English. His latest book is SANDU - short stories, published by Tracus Arte in 2016.
English
Romanian
VIRIONS
a crab-apple tree
crooked over a filthy culvert
strongly believes that its fruits
are the most advanced children
in the universe
fancy that
you and i
just useful dutiful boring parasites
on this planet
we didn’t even fuck enough on
(Written during the exploding phase of the coronavirus pandemic 2020, March 16th)
VIRIONI
un măr sălbatic
strâmb crescând lângă un șanț împuțit
e convins că fructele lui sunt
cea mai avansată creație
din universuite
eu și cu tine
corecți sclavi corecți paraziți
pe planeta asta
nici măcar
nu ne-am futut destul