Croatia

Lungs Full of Air

These hills
Black upright
Lungs full of air

Night clouds
Black greyish milky
Like the Baltic, inclined to evil
Take these lights
High-rise buildings and trails of man
Let only Christ-the-lighthouse remain

In the circle of the sharp hills
Stuck into the sky like glaciers
The worlds of rainforests‹what an
adventure!

         — Tomica Bajsić
        (translated from the Croatian by Damir Śodan)

Pluća Puna Zraka

Ova brda
Crna uspravna
Pluća puna zraka

Noćni oblaci
Crnosivi mliječni
Naklonjeni zlu poput Baltika

Uzmi ova svjetla
I nebodere i tragove čovjeka
Neka ostane samo Krist ‹ svjetionik

U krugu oštrih brda
Zabijenih u nebo poput ledenjaka
Svijet kišnih šuma — kakva pustolovina!

         — Tomica Bajsić