UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

At her laboratory desk,
she marvels at the sight
of one-celled fungi,
chameleonic shape 
and barely a mass 
wiggling, 
              pulsating, 
shifting under 
             the magnifying glass.

She thinks of aimless clouds
across the summer sky, 
shapes morphing
from cauliflower
to foaming milk 
spilt over the mountain
Inside, 
the skittish water molecules 
pull, 
      turn, 
            and stir—
a chaos at the mercy
of cold winds or heat waves 
and yet, 
for her, 
           a call for meditation. 

MURMURATION

                                   Due to the climate change, 
                                  the natural phenomenon murmuration 
                                  has become a rare event 

Consider yourself lucky
if you see
the starlings’ Dervish Dance,
twirling,
gliding,
swooping,
moving as a living whole
across the sky.

Breath stealing wonder,
this allegro shape in flight,
this scarf wrapped loose 
around a slender steeple,
grace morphed 
into a floating furrow 
above the fields,
this beauty 
of synchronization
has became 
a Rara Avis in itself.

Elena Lelia Radulescu is a Romanian-American writer. Her poetry, essays and short stories have been published by Visions International, Square Lake Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Chelsea, Karamu, CALYX Journal, Trajectory Journal, The Cape Rock Review, Magnolia Journal, Gastronomica Journal, Third Wednesday Journal, Concho River Review, Ocotillo Journal, Voices de la Luna, Evening Street Journal, and other literary publications.