Zoran Pešić Sigma(1960-2019) was a Serbian poet, writer and editor ofGradinajournal. He has published eight collections of poetry, four of prose and two plays. His works have received many awards and have been translated into several languages.
The World is an Infinite Black Mattress
The world is an infinite black mattress on which small gray beings jump occasionally God angry calm down you are going to destroy the springs! and for some time the small gray stains keep quiet like naughty scared kids until God enters the other room
A Bed of Books
It’s comfortable like cresset for incense
until everything is burnt there is no luck
there is no smell there is no sacred curiosity
the past is always naive like yellowing photography of missed good intentions the present never harder time just to survive to the first future until the first turn into a dream
in this bed we cover ourselves with soft covers we embrace the pillow in which pleated naughty stories rustle
Translated by Danijela Trajković
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