They were young lads, they waited for me more than an hour in the other people’s apartment in order to check if my face really resembled an angel’s on paintings by old masters as I had written back in the days when angels were legally outlawed This was a completely new police in the spirit of the new times […]
I’m turning over a new leaf, I’ve got my health back I’ll write about love again, I murmur to myself while the chock-full bus tilts dangerously on a curve like a blue flower on its too-frail stem I will spend this day looking at façades freshly painted in shiny Austrian ochre around Zrinjevac Park I will fill my eyes […]
From the start we should have informed Red Riding Hood all about the wolf Later the hunter turned out not to have a mandate to use firearms The fairy tale in this case let us down tr. W. Browne
The day was mild say eyewitnesses when a white cloud rose toward the sky First all the Stations of the Cross unwillingly soared up toward the heavens With Jesus in the rear as usual bearing his own cross Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows covered her eyes With a lily in his teeth Saint Anthony looked for the forgotten young […]
When children from Bosnia ascend to Allah falling asleep peacefully in Christ they don’t need a passport any more A black stamp suffices at all border crossings They quickly learn Happiness is Kitsch Antique furniture, Wiehler gobelins with a field of poppies make quite a nice bonfire A proof of existence cogito ergo sum Salt manufacturing in Bosnia is done […]
Stars don’t exist to beautify our nighttime sky They are black coals, remnants of matter that didn’t spare itself they burned up in their own fire and they now live only when light falls on them – the light of other bodies that also burn up unstintingly Thus if we too selflessly burn to the end the glow of others’ […]