Poem
Borben Vladović
Clothes under the Stone
Stripping all his roadshe puts the stage clothes
under the dry stone.
Everything that looked
big and affluent
was wet and bright.
On the deck bench
of the passenger’s paper boat
he is afraid of the tide
that lifts the horizon
and threatens the clothes
to become wet
to the stone
it could roll into
some gap and become
a marble
© Translation: 2004, Miloš Đurđević
Odjeća ispod kamena
Odjeća ispod kamena
Ogolivši sve svoje putovestavio je scensku odjeću
pod suhi kamen
Sve ono što je izgledalo
veliko i raskošno
bilo je mokro i svijetlo
S klupe na palubi
putničkoga papirnatog broda
strepi pred plimom
koja podiže obzor
i prijeti odjeći da se
smoči
kamenu
da se otkotrlja do
nekog usjeka i postane
mramor
© 2000, Borben Vladović
From: Lirika
Publisher: Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb
From: Lirika
Publisher: Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb
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Clothes under the Stone
Stripping all his roadshe puts the stage clothes
under the dry stone.
Everything that looked
big and affluent
was wet and bright.
On the deck bench
of the passenger’s paper boat
he is afraid of the tide
that lifts the horizon
and threatens the clothes
to become wet
to the stone
it could roll into
some gap and become
a marble
© 2004, Miloš Đurđević
From: Lirika
From: Lirika
Clothes under the Stone
Stripping all his roadshe puts the stage clothes
under the dry stone.
Everything that looked
big and affluent
was wet and bright.
On the deck bench
of the passenger’s paper boat
he is afraid of the tide
that lifts the horizon
and threatens the clothes
to become wet
to the stone
it could roll into
some gap and become
a marble
© 2004, Miloš Đurđević
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