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Give Me Back My Rags #1

A poem by Vasko Popa

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Trans. by Anne Pennington
Collection
Unrest-Field
Year
1956
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Vasko Popa 1922–1991

The poem

Give me back my rags

My rags of pure dreaming Of silk smiling of striped foreboding Of my cloth of lace

My rags of spotted hope Of burnished desire of chequered glances Of skin from my face

Give me back my rags Give me when I ask you nicely

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