Dina Oktaviani: Broken Heart Walking

I want to introduce you to:
DINA OKTAVIANI

dan buku kumpulan puisinya berjudul:
BROKEN HEART WALKING: HATI YANG PATAH BERJALAN.

Buku ini hadiah dari Kak Aan Mansyur, seorang penggila kata dan kalimat. Dia memberiku April 2010 dan buku ini lebih banyak menghabiskan waktunya mendekam di lemari buku ku, ketimbang saya baca berulang-ulang.

but these are my favorite:

"dadanya berdarah
hatinya tidak"
-jalan kecil menuju dina-

"now that night has become the past
which will not appear in our words
if we have to meet and chat
in my home-or yours
in the future"
-wedding anniversary-

"tak ada yang dapat sembunyi lagi
saat aku membuka pintu dan memasuki semesta
yang dengan takjub kita sebut rumah"
-trinitas-

"...but still I miss you
like a terrifying journey
of a train from town to town
which I could never stop

I try to write something
and pray for you
so that you can forgive
your love for me

but all the words
and beliefs
ran away from my solitude

-why should one's head be above the heart
that my frail breasts
cannot touch your ears
without lowering your face?"
-Inner Landscape-

Dina Oktaviani was born on October 11, 1985 in Lampung. At 21 she had her first book of poems published. This was Biografi Kehilangan (the Biography of Loss)

She is the author of como un sueno, a collection of short stories. Broken Heart Walking is her latest collection of poems.

*
Thanks for Kak Aan, a man who really loves words and sentences, for introducing me and let me into poems and its beauty. Mengingatkan waktu masih SMP, saat-saat saya menulis puisi dan cerita fantasi bersama Chank.