Iva is me- Krhotine / Sherds

16 Jul 2010

This is my 100th p..m of 2010. I usually write 20-60 per year, but I wrote a lot in 1998 and pretty much in 2005. Looks like 2010 is going to surpass everything. No boundaries.

Krhotine

Bomba u obliku slatkiša u mom prednjem džepu,
slatkiš u obliku bombe u mom zadnjem džepu,
i jedno i drugo su fragmenti tebe.

Ne volim krhotine,
veoma rado bih te zalepila,
ali sam potrošila sav lepak,

Senka u obliku mrlje na mom levom rukavu,
mrlja u obliku senke na mom desnom rukavu,
i jedno i drugo su kapljice tebe.

Ne volim prljavštinu,
veoma rado bih te počistila,
ali te ne vidim u mrklom mraku.

Nije trebalo da me izlomiš na sitne deliće,
nije trebalo da me nateraš da upotrebim sve svetlo.

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Sherds

A candy-shaped bomb in my front pocket,
A bomb-shaped candy in my back pocket,
Both of them fragments of you.

I don’t like sherds.
I would gladly glue you back,
But I have spent all of my glue.

A shadow in the shape of a stain on my left pocket,
A stain in the shape of a shadow on my right pocket,
Both of them are droplets of you.

I don’t like dirt,
I’d gladly clean you up,
But I cannot see you in pitch dark.

Shouldn’t have ripped me me to sherds.
Shouldn’t have made me use up all the light.

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Comments

July 22, 2010 13:01 Reply

Hi, Iva, I absolutely adore all of your poems that I’ve read so far and they really inspire me to write my own ones. I like this particular one and the one called “Unreliable machine” very much. I wanted to ask about this one – did you mean to put the word “sleeve” instead of “pocket” in the third verse of the english version, because I read both versions and judging how close our languages are I guessed that “rukav” in serbian means “sleeve”. Now I’m off to read the rest of your poems that I’ve missed to read from the last few days…