Poem
Borben Vladović
Unfinished Dog
With his fingers he is drumming on the tablewhirling the dog’s hair with his fingers
like a frightened schoolboy with his curls
Shame restrains the craft of an animalist’s
fear that voiceless clay will not bark.
He is opening the window in the hope that
rigid frozen branches would tell him
from where comes that windless rippling
the flying of the dog’s hair
white eyeballs in flames.
He locked the door and growled
at all his and others’ expectations
© Translation: 2004, Miloš Đurđević
Nedovršeni pas
Nedovršeni pas
Njegovi prsti bubnjaju po stolunjegovi prsti kovitlaju pseću dlaku
kao prestrašeni đak svoju kosu
Sram sputava vještinu animalista
strah da bezglasna glina neće zalajati
Otvara prozor u nadi da mu kažu
skrućene smrznute krošnje
odakle to mreškanje bez vjetra
letenje pseće dlake
bijele zjenice koje plamte
Zaključao je vrata i zarežao
na sva svoja i tuđa očekivanja
© 2000, Borben Vladović
From: Lirika
Publisher: Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb
From: Lirika
Publisher: Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb
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Unfinished Dog
With his fingers he is drumming on the tablewhirling the dog’s hair with his fingers
like a frightened schoolboy with his curls
Shame restrains the craft of an animalist’s
fear that voiceless clay will not bark.
He is opening the window in the hope that
rigid frozen branches would tell him
from where comes that windless rippling
the flying of the dog’s hair
white eyeballs in flames.
He locked the door and growled
at all his and others’ expectations
© 2004, Miloš Đurđević
From: Lirika
From: Lirika
Unfinished Dog
With his fingers he is drumming on the tablewhirling the dog’s hair with his fingers
like a frightened schoolboy with his curls
Shame restrains the craft of an animalist’s
fear that voiceless clay will not bark.
He is opening the window in the hope that
rigid frozen branches would tell him
from where comes that windless rippling
the flying of the dog’s hair
white eyeballs in flames.
He locked the door and growled
at all his and others’ expectations
© 2004, Miloš Đurđević
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