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Poem

Miroslav Kirin

A BEAUTIFUL THING takes place:

A BEAUTIFUL THING takes place:
the evil as short as the sound.

the snow has abandoned its whiteness,
the touch its body.

in order to make a blood-
bathed body white again,

we have abandoned
our measures & persuasions:

we have afforded ourselves a joy
of being blind, deaf & dumb.

in their newly created lightness
things bounce and never come back.

A BEAUTIFUL THING takes place:

NEŠTO SE KRASNO DOGAĐA:
zlo je kratko poput zvuka.

snijeg se odrekao bjeline,
dodir tijela.

a da bi tijelo umrljano
krvlju ponovno bilo

bijelo, odrekli smo se
mjerenja & uvjerenja:

priuštili smo si radost
sljepoće, gluhoće & nijemosti.

u novostvorenoj lakoći stvari
odskakuju i ne vraćaju se.
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A BEAUTIFUL THING takes place:

A BEAUTIFUL THING takes place:
the evil as short as the sound.

the snow has abandoned its whiteness,
the touch its body.

in order to make a blood-
bathed body white again,

we have abandoned
our measures & persuasions:

we have afforded ourselves a joy
of being blind, deaf & dumb.

in their newly created lightness
things bounce and never come back.

A BEAUTIFUL THING takes place:

A BEAUTIFUL THING takes place:
the evil as short as the sound.

the snow has abandoned its whiteness,
the touch its body.

in order to make a blood-
bathed body white again,

we have abandoned
our measures & persuasions:

we have afforded ourselves a joy
of being blind, deaf & dumb.

in their newly created lightness
things bounce and never come back.
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