Clara Burghelea

Clara Burghelea is Editor at Large of Village of Crickets and currently taking her MFA in Creative Writing at Adelphi University. Her poems have been published in print and online publications, including In-Flight Literary Magazine, Straylight Literary Magazine, Indiana Voice Journal, Peacock Journal, Full of Crow Press, Quail Bell Magazine and Ambit Magazine.

“My own key slotted in your door”, “Survival” and “On life’s meaningful pauses”

An unambiguous pathos permeates Clara Burghelea’s poetry in, for example, this line: “I would have grown forgetful, had I stayed” in “My Own Key Slotted in Your Door.” Then, in “Survival” “love gave its sorrow a name/and drowned it.” And “how can I breathe breathless into the air of you?” in “On Life’s Meaningful Pauses.”