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New Series No. 18 - 2001


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Antun Branko Simic email a linkprint this page
My love, my friend and I

On my love’s body
your gaze
rests
caresses
slips and falls
like a dead black bird

Your lust howls and howls
around the body of my sweetheart

Your gaze and mine
a collision of hatred
scrapes
bursts
hurts and hurts

Through space
the red stream
of my blood
sprays

Famished death eats the heart


Translated by Courtney Angela Brkic

page(s) 160


 




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