Nine Alexandrias by Semezdin Mehmedinovic

Author:Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

MIST

This morning melancholy Jibes with the world out there:

I see a field of sunflowers through the window And woods, October-like, and the first signs of fall: Fields and trees in the morning mist.

At a yard sale this summer I picked up an unsigned painting cheap Worthless other than the mist on the streets of Paris. It wasn’t the painting, but the mist I bought

Because I love resistance to pure form The sharpness at the edges Sexuality bom where October woods grow An ancestry I find in me i

AN ESSAY ON TATTOOS

When the guy sitting across from me straightens up I catch sight of a guillotine with a lightning flash Against a bluish knife blade sketched Hyper-realistically across his throat.

In the culture of poverty I come from

Tattoos are always and only the result of dull needles

Taken up in solitary.

In spite of the pain, I yearned

To inscribe messages on my body

But I never took the plunge before the needle,

Something I attribute to the

cause of antifascism:

In a society sensitive to the tenderness of skin Memory of the holocaust still lives on

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