Far Within Us #6

Portrait of Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa 1922–1991

From the wrinkle between my brows You watch till day breaks On my face

The waxen night Is beginning to singe The fingers of dawn

Black bricks Have already tiled The whole dome of the sky

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