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Canto VI
Aleksandra Djajic-Horváth
Bosnia – HerzegovinaGALLERYCONVERSATION
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This is the third city
I have come to this year
with my body skin teeth nails
my black suitcase
a homeland in pieces.


Along an unfamiliar pavement
I hurry to the underground.
And then -
the tide of the escalator
takes over my body
and through the dazzling clouds of neon
I descend
light and transparent
into the underworld.
My golden bough
a crumpled morning paper
smells of lead.
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