Lidija Cvetkovic Biography

After a decade of absence it’s the crumbling
facades that strike me — chunks of paint split off
like states on the map of former Yugoslavia.
In the tenement flats everyone is spring cleaning —
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In this grey town, Popa’s
‘white bone among the clouds’
the buildings stand still
like shocked witnesses.
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What was it like when you were young?
War had left its talismans . . .
From forests and fields we brought in
bombs and metal wrecks —
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My father draws a blade
along the wired frame
as we watch perfect rectangles
of honeycomb topple into
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from the pig’s slit throat a red carpet unrolls
all his life he’s been fed for this
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