Oko

Oko I u neostvarenom živi namera:

Da budem jači, što me manje ima;

A nedremano oko-kamera

Svaki moj mikroporaz čitko snima.

Plava optika nedremanog oka

Snimiće tako i kako se menja

Oblik mog srca, damar krvotoka

U svakom času tvoga nerođenja

Što ponavlja se ušestostručeno:

Krik pod visokim svodovima, ali

Nečujan u svemu izvan ovog sluha -

Osim što kruži po toj katedrali,

Po zavojima nedremanog uha:

Ko uholaža božja, bezvremeno.

Eye

And in the unrealised there lives intent:

To be stronger, the less of me there is;

While the sleepy eye-camera records

Each and every micro-defeat.

The blue optics of the sleepy eye

Will record and capture the changes

In the shape of my heart, and my blood stream

In every moment of your non-birth

Which repeats itself six times over:

A cry beneath the high vault, but

Unheard in everything beyond this sense –

Aside from circling about that cathedral,

About the bandaged sleepy ear: 

Like God’s earwig, timeless.

(Translated by Pavle Ninković)