Dumitru Matcovschi Poezii | VALIDATED |

When she walked back to the house, she did not carry a message for the delegation. She carried the book. She would read them the poems herself. And if they did not understand, that was all right.

“Matcovschi wrote,” he said slowly, “that a man without a village is a man without a shadow. And a village without its wells is just a map.” He closed the book. “Tell them the well stays.” Dumitru Matcovschi Poezii

She drank. The water was cold and tasted of iron and stone and centuries. When she walked back to the house, she