AZIZ TASH was born in 1973 in the town of Smolian, Bulgaria. He is a promising and talented young Bulgarian poet and literary translator from Turkish, English, Arabic and Persian languages into Bulgarian. He has his poems published in the most prestigious Bulgarian literary newspapers and magazines, in literary and scientific magazines in Turkey and he has translated contemporary Turkish and Arabian authors into Bulgarian and he is much valued by the literary critics in Bulgaria.

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DOOR

Don't put a finger on the sore
For in the meanwhile
If it heals
You'll have to open it again.

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DOORS

When God slammed all the sores
That you when leaving had forgotten open
Said:
"Knock and I shall open..."
I knocked and went on knocking with my knife.
The doors were really opening
But there, behind each door, I found only myself:
With a knife thrust in my back.

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TO KIRSTEN VAN DEN HULL

We asked the lowest of the seven skies:
"The other six weigh heavy,
Don't they?"
It said:
"They don't, but
You do!"

***
I cry
But the cry doesn't answer.

***
Maybe my cry
Stuns the answer.

***
I.
Clouds are
Rain-prayers' victims.

II.
Since we stopped praying
The clouds are forced
To commit suicide.

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A DUEL

Dedicated to Ozlem Cekmece and my headache

Death took the gauntlet up
And stood with his revolver
At a stone's throw
And said:
"Prove me you are the faster of us both!"
I shot:
Right at my temple.

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DIFFERENT AGES

1.
You are so little
There are 30 years between us:
Your 15
And my 15.

2.
But probably
After another 30,
When you and I are almost 30
We'll catch each other's ages up.