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.

English

 

 

WRITER IN RESERVE

 

i am

a fractal writer in reserve

just in case the planet

decides

to expire

i’ll be the one to slowly wake up

and go down

to the wire

 

 

yet

in case it just rains

abruptly

i notice

and try to exult

as when it snows

and it snows over

my algorithm

so bloody occult

 

 Translated by the Poet

Romanian

 

 

SCRIITOR ÎN REZERVĂ

 

eu sunt un scriitor

fractal

în rezervă

în caz că planeta decide

să moară

doar eu mă trezesc

cel mai brusc

într-o doară

 

 

dar în caz că doar plouă

încet eu observ

și nu uit

când ninge

ninge

ninge și peste

algoritmul meu

cel ocult