Barbara girl you are a beast/Varvara djevojko ti si zvijer

Down from your fangs words drip on the claws
You’ve said sparkling edges
The jaws of the night have heard

You’ve said
Tearing apart
Melting down
Diving flights
Parting
Halving
Brokenness
Each word you will bring back to the cut off breath
Each word you will bring back to the halved dawn
Chronically undernourished

Varvara djevojko ti si zvijer
Riječ i ti sa zuba kaplju na kandže
Rekla si oštrice bjelasave
Što ih je č ula razjapljena noć

Rekla si
kidanja
otapanja
obrušavanja
rasta vljenost
raspoluć enost
slomljenost

Svaku ć eš vratiti na presječ en dah
Svaku ć eš vratiti na prerezano svitanje
Hronicno neuhranjenu

©Miroslava Odalović

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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