A BRIEF RECORD OF A FAREWELL

    Lyric, beware; a fire will flare up
a piercing ray will drive from below
to impale us, but
thought offers no protection.

This is warfare, an attack on the soul
the sea bottom separates from the water
and who will endure, now, the burden
and the discovery?

Translated by Ilija Casule and Thomas Shapcott

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