Thank You for Being a Woman - by
Thank you for being a woman
/ For having been born
/ To know the pain of childbirth;
/ For having nursed my mother’s breast
/ To know…
mothers
My Son - by
The moon keeps watch
/ and the child sleeps.
/ His head emerges from the covers
/ like a flower smiling at life.
/ His breath is like…
Thor Heyerdahls mor - by
Thor Heyerdahl, en traust
/ og stillferdig
/ nordmann, som tenkte
/ sitt og ville
/
/ finne
/ ut om det
/ stemte – så han bygde seg en flåte
/ av balsa
/
/ på de…
Il Sogno Della Madre - by
Se state guardando una madre che dorme in poltrona
/ in un qualsiasi dopopranzo invernale
/ con il televisore temporaneamente spento
/ e con in casa…
from Poem to her Daughter - by
Daughter, take this amulet
/ tie it with cord and caring
/ I’ll make you a chain of coral and pearl
/ to glow on your…
Esej - by
Zaslužuje pjesmu ova večernja šetnja.
/ Svjetlucanje aviona nad predgrađem
/ Dok u plavičastu tamu tone.
/ Varničenje žica nad trolejbusom.
/ Jedna je žena izgubila naušnicu
/ Sad se…
’Our cries, she used to say…’ - by
Our cries, she used to say
/ would scratch the moon’s windowpanes
/ and scrape the corners of tombstones which milked the moon
/
/ My mother…
Mother - by
All this last week I have been thinking
of my mother, thinking of her taking
up in her arms the creaking basket
of clothes, without pausing, up to the attic.
As the child looks on - by
his mother pulls the linen
/ from the cord.
/ She flaps each sheet,
/ folds each vest.
/ Collars are starched,
/ skirts are dressed.
/ She is spit, she is…
Like a Beacon - by
In London
/ every now and then
/ I get this craving
/ for my mother’s food
/ I leave art galleries
/ in search of plantains
/ saltfish/sweet potatoes
/
/ I need this…
Milk - by
Your custom often
/ when the house was still
/
/ to brew milky coffee
/ and reminisce.
/
/ Child care experts would have frowned
/ on my late hours,
/
/ The bitter…
Love - by
I hadn’t met his kind before.
/ His misericord face – really,
/ like a joke on his father – blurred
/ as if from years…