A SKETCH FOR A HEROINE

(multiple one) there once was a woman who lowered a pendulum into the sea hoping this would it turn upside down – who listened through a golden funnel, until the sea entered her ear, through the ear into the palace – who was trying to leave fingerprints on the...

EXILE SUITE

(written in 2015/2016, the four poems entitled “Exile Suite” – or “Mediterranean Suite” – were translated and performed in Croatian, Danish, English and French, and published in original and in translation in a couple of literary magazines;  they were a part of a large-format art-book created by visual artist...

THE CABINET FOR SENTIMENTAL TRIVIAL LITERATURE

September 8th. Dear Rosa, I’ve been thinking for a long time about how it would be pleasant to write to you. But it is only today, facing the usual chaos in the office – no, it has not diminished over time – that I almost unintentionally wrote the date...

THE LITTLE MERMAID’S SONGS

(the five poems I’m posting here, about H. C. Andersen’s little mermaid, were invented, more or less, while swimming in the wrong, southern sea; they are meant to be sung – still waiting for someone to put them in music; my thanks go to Allison Amend who corrected my...