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Vasko Popa: “In the Village of My Ancestors”

Posted by matt on 5 January 2009

deep-look-energeticspell

IN THE VILLAGE OF MY ANCESTORS
 
Someone embraces me
Someone looks at me with the eyes of a wolf
Someone takes off his hat
So I can see him better

Everyone asks me
Do you know how I’m related to you

Unknown old men and women
Appropriate the names
Of young men and women from my memory

I ask one of them
Tell me for God’s sake
Is George the Wolf still living

That’s me he answers
With a voice from the next world

I touch his cheek with my hand
And beg him with my eyes
To tell me if I’m living too

Vasko Popa

Translation by Charles Simic

Photo: Deep look by energeticspell

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