Poem
Miroslav Kirin
A SWISH OF GLITTERING creatures in
A SWISH OF GLITTERING creatures inthe air: a school of fish, a flock of birds, a swarm of flies –
they deprive me of heaviness of walking,
they deprive me of compulsion of breathing.
Have you seen them?
You know, you just open the window and, if you’re lucky enough,
you’ll see them. No,
I haven’t seen anything.
Did you open the window? Yes.
Well, you do have the window? Yes.
How come you haven’t
seen them? Are you
blind? No. Are you
happy? No, I can
not answer this. You can
not answer this? Yes.
© Translation: 2004, Miroslav Kirin and Miloš Đurđević
A SWISH OF GLITTERING creatures in
KROZ ZRAK ŠIŠTE svjetlucava
bića: plova riba, jato ptica, roj mušica –
otkidaju me od težine hodanja,
otkidaju me od prisile disanja.
Jesi li ih vidio?
Znaš, otvoriš li prozor i, ako si sretan,
ugledat ćeš ih. Ne,
ništa nisam vidio.
Jesi li otvorio prozor? Jesam.
Znači, prozor imaš. Da.
Pa kako ih onda nisi
vidio. Jesi
li slijep? Nisam. Jesi
li sretan? Ne
mogu odgovoriti. Ne
možeš odgovoriti? Da.
bića: plova riba, jato ptica, roj mušica –
otkidaju me od težine hodanja,
otkidaju me od prisile disanja.
Jesi li ih vidio?
Znaš, otvoriš li prozor i, ako si sretan,
ugledat ćeš ih. Ne,
ništa nisam vidio.
Jesi li otvorio prozor? Jesam.
Znači, prozor imaš. Da.
Pa kako ih onda nisi
vidio. Jesi
li slijep? Nisam. Jesi
li sretan? Ne
mogu odgovoriti. Ne
možeš odgovoriti? Da.
© 1998, Miroslav Kirin
From: Tantalon
Publisher: Meandar, Zagreb
From: Tantalon
Publisher: Meandar, Zagreb
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A SWISH OF GLITTERING creatures in
A SWISH OF GLITTERING creatures inthe air: a school of fish, a flock of birds, a swarm of flies –
they deprive me of heaviness of walking,
they deprive me of compulsion of breathing.
Have you seen them?
You know, you just open the window and, if you’re lucky enough,
you’ll see them. No,
I haven’t seen anything.
Did you open the window? Yes.
Well, you do have the window? Yes.
How come you haven’t
seen them? Are you
blind? No. Are you
happy? No, I can
not answer this. You can
not answer this? Yes.
© 2004, Miroslav Kirin and Miloš Đurđević
From: Tantalon
From: Tantalon
A SWISH OF GLITTERING creatures in
A SWISH OF GLITTERING creatures inthe air: a school of fish, a flock of birds, a swarm of flies –
they deprive me of heaviness of walking,
they deprive me of compulsion of breathing.
Have you seen them?
You know, you just open the window and, if you’re lucky enough,
you’ll see them. No,
I haven’t seen anything.
Did you open the window? Yes.
Well, you do have the window? Yes.
How come you haven’t
seen them? Are you
blind? No. Are you
happy? No, I can
not answer this. You can
not answer this? Yes.
© 2004, Miroslav Kirin and Miloš Đurđević
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