Ethnic Enny Meeny Miney Moe / Ethno brojalica

Delimir Rešicki

(Translated from the Croatian by Julienne Bušić)



Working with language is the same
as working in the field
A storm comes
Hail and frost
And what’s left
Of language
Of the field
Are only
Pathetic
Frozen
Petals
Of wild cherries
Fluttering hopelessly over the primers
For guards and gravediggers.







Raditi u jeziku
isto je
što i raditi
u polju
dođe nevrijeme
i dođu tuča i mraz
i od svega
u jeziku
i u polju
ostaju tek te patetične
smrznute latice
divlje trešnje
koje beznadno lete
svud po čitankama za stražare
i grobare. Q