661 | Bdin XVI | Ivan Hristov Bulgaria

Painting, detail, by Rogier van der Weyden, Belgium, 1400-1464 

Bdin* XVI

 for Prof. Simeon Yanev

Today,
March 18th,
was a sunny
springday.
Today
killed
anybody,
nobody
anybody.
I entered
the church
to pray
and heard
the voices
of all the
dead.
Rain
fell
from the eyes
of God.

Ivan Hristov Bulgaria (1978)

Translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
*The medieval name of the Bulgarian town Vidin