Poem

Barbara Korun

Side by side

Breathing Together

You can
reach into me
anywhere
deep as you can;

in pleasure,
in pain
I slip away
from you;

in language,
in words,
here
you are breathing
me in,
you inhale me
completely.

Sodihanje

lahko mi
sežeš v telo
kamorkoli
globoko
kolikor moreš
v užitku
in bolečini
se ti izmaknem
ne morem
se izmuzniti
v jeziku
v besedah
tu
me vdihuješ
vdihneš
popolnoma

Barbara Korun

(Slovenia, 1963)

Barbara Korun, born in 1963 in Ljubljana, is a leading figure in the generation of radical young women poets writing in Slovenia. She is the author of Ostrina miline (‘The Edge of Grace’, Mladinska Knjiga, 1999), for which she received the National Book Fair Award for a debut collection. Her other collections of poetry and prose poems are Zapiski iz podmizja (‘Notes from under the Table’, Apok...

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Breathing Together

You can
reach into me
anywhere
deep as you can;

in pleasure,
in pain
I slip away
from you;

in language,
in words,
here
you are breathing
me in,
you inhale me
completely.

Breathing Together

You can
reach into me
anywhere
deep as you can;

in pleasure,
in pain
I slip away
from you;

in language,
in words,
here
you are breathing
me in,
you inhale me
completely.