Post by Gordana Lekovic

Anthology of South Slavic poetry Danilo Kiš Apollinaire's Love Dreams lines written on dirty cardboard pieces on calendar sheets on the cover of Mercure de France brigadier of the 38th artillery regiment deep in the forest waits for answers on the new year 1915 in the train between Nice and Marseille a vast blue sea and a morning full of light meeting on the background of war rain and despair and he made for her the ring from the pieces of copper of a German grenade caliber 77 oh, that clear image a strength of a Vittoria Colonna spirit and a Saint Teresa mystical zeal war that huge drama of decay bulwarks of living flesh a fragrant angel soars above the black smoke a paper knife also made of German grenades a buttons from overcoat a splendent wing of butterfly a fragrant angel soars above the black smoke Strasbourg, 1963 Translated from Serbo-Croatian by Gordana Lekovic Femme à la guitare / Woman with Guitar by Georges Braque (1913) oil and charcoal on canvas Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou