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Slavko Jendričko

Gentle Sentences on Winter

I heard the winter saint’s name
already after the first snowball I’d
eaten
everything seemed warm
in the secret language e.g.
weasels after evening prayer
they run diamonds to glow
until the morning.

That simple-minded
mercy of winter evenings
the wife after she washes the dishes
rocks me
in her warm hands.

How I melt, manfully,
in the gentle sentences on winter.

Nježne rečenice o zimi

Nježne rečenice o zimi

Čuo sam ime zimskog sveca
već poslije prve pojedene grude
snijega
sve mi se činilo toplim
u tajnom jeziku npr.
lasice poslije večernje molitve
one trče dijamante da svijetle
do jutra.

Ta prostodušna
milost zimskih večeri
žena nakon što opere tanjure
ljulja me
u svojim toplim dlanovima.

Toplim li se, muško,
u nježnim rečenicama o zimi.
Slavko Jendričko

Slavko Jendričko

(Kroatië, 1947)

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Nježne rečenice o zimi

Čuo sam ime zimskog sveca
već poslije prve pojedene grude
snijega
sve mi se činilo toplim
u tajnom jeziku npr.
lasice poslije večernje molitve
one trče dijamante da svijetle
do jutra.

Ta prostodušna
milost zimskih večeri
žena nakon što opere tanjure
ljulja me
u svojim toplim dlanovima.

Toplim li se, muško,
u nježnim rečenicama o zimi.

Gentle Sentences on Winter

I heard the winter saint’s name
already after the first snowball I’d
eaten
everything seemed warm
in the secret language e.g.
weasels after evening prayer
they run diamonds to glow
until the morning.

That simple-minded
mercy of winter evenings
the wife after she washes the dishes
rocks me
in her warm hands.

How I melt, manfully,
in the gentle sentences on winter.
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