The Balkans

The Balkans

The Balkans
Reading
Plot
Between Two Worlds
The Dunghill of Beaux Arts
Pax mecum
Survival
Poem de morte for 3 mixed voices
… Ante portas

To Stephen Simski – Daedalus
(a dramatis persona non grata)

I am I
a cultivated barbarian
a civilised decadent
an un-exiled dissident
a socialist-conformist by force
not by vocation
good for nothing

This I am by recollection
not by fact
by touch
act (ouch!)
No

By recollection
from recollection
(not by fact)
I set out through the labyrinth
the decimated anthill
the eroded bed
blinded
forever I loiter
through white corridors
neon-radiated…

… a draught blows
from these empty scrolls
molehills of the past
from the blank gaze
of the Grand Factographer—
a well-known structuralist
puzzled by the possibility
of combinations
aporia

Not by fact!
No
I am I
entellechy
a form of forms
engendered by recollection
of Adam and Eve
according to a fragmentary code
a genetic amalgam
a heap of cells
that excavate
their own blood stream

AuthorZoran Ančevski
2018-08-21T17:23:58+00:00 April 1st, 1999|Categories: Poetry, Blesok no. 08|0 Comments