my sky is lit and the windows are clean,
skyscrapers are gleaming.
loosen up (I loosen up) your forced posture, a dog is accompanying you, loosen up
(I loosen up) your forced movement.
to place a piece of flesh in the sun, you know you won’t. to lift one’s arms up, you know you
don’t.
alternately
you’re looking at your lit sky but again
you’re putting on bands.
(Rush, I) translated by Barbara Jurša
moje nebo je prižgano in okna so čista,
stolpnice bleščijo.
sprosti (sprostim) svojo prisilno držo, pes te spremlja, sprosti
(sprostim) svoje prisilne gibe.
položiti kos mesa na sonce, veš da ne. dvigniti roke k višku, veš da ne.
izmenjaje se
gledaš svoje prižgano nebo, a spet
trakove nadevaš.
(Naval I)
KRISTINA HOČEVAR
my sky is lit
About KRISTINA HOČEVAR
Kristina Hočevar (1977) is the author of seven poetry collections. Her poems are included in various anthologies, translated into 15 languages, as well as presented through the Versopolis poetry platform. She also collaborates with the Lesbian Quarter Festival. She received the Golden Bird Award for Repki (Tiny Tails), and the Jenko Award for the Na zobeh aluminij, na ustnicah kreda (Aluminium on the Teeth, Chalk on the Lips). Simultaneously with the publication of her latest, trilingual poetry collection Rujenje / Half of a C / C 的 一半, the author presented herself for the first time in the visual arts at the Škuc Gallery (www.rujenje.xyz).