Translated by Mirza Purić
My beautiful triune people, you’re fairest
in the morning when you gush forth
from your colon-colonies
and your public transport vans
– thank you.
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Translated by Mirza Purić
You’re always on the edge between two chasms, cradle-ladles,
as your limping legs laze on the wall.
There are wider spaces in you, their evening chill
callously presses your palms
as if to pierce your insides, spill into the night,
into the rivers above the roofs, into the rotten orchards of the sky.
Translated by Mirza Purić
When we wet the bed
for three nights in a row
they put a shroud
over our heads
and brought the lead
to our eyes
Translated by Mirza Purić
I’ve got all the necessary qualifications to become stateless I’ve got
an expired passport of a state which no longer exists and a birth certificate
from a city in a country no one will recognise
Translated by Mirza Purić
beggars at my door
I’m not opening
the spyhole is a safe space
a worldview
in my fridge
fungi and mould
Translated by Mirza Purić
Says
All things
When you lay them
One across the other
Make a cross
Only a man
Dropped as a perpendicular
Onto another man
A Special Feature on Poets and Power: Language of Resilience from Central and Eastern Europe Introduction by Katrine Øgaard Jensen and Mirza Purić Poetry Two poems by Miodrag Stanisavljević, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić Two poems by Darko Cvijetic, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić Three poems by Anja Marković, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić Two poems by Selma Asotić, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić Two poems by Bojan Krivokapić, translated from the B/C/S by
Translated by Mirza Purić
My husband is burly, and when he walks, it’s as if his steps are yawning. He stumbles over me as if over a pet. I sometimes hide behind a tree and wait for him to turn around. Or leave. If we’re going to a birthday party, I’m the one who wraps and carries the present. If he’s had a lot of wine, the room takes on a smell which makes me put on my shoes and walk up and down the street.
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