Vasko Popa Skin Poems

  • 1.
    Each strips his own skin
    Each bares his own constellation
    Which has never seen the night

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  • 2.
    Give me back my rags

    My rags of pure dreaming
    Of silk smiling of striped foreboding
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  • 3.
    Line the inside of the little box
    With your precious skin
    And make yourself cozy
    Just as you would in your own home
    ...
  • 4.
    Don't box down to the little box
    Which supposedly contains everything
    Your star and all other stars

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Total 4 Skin Poems by Vasko Popa

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Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
Though late it be, though lily-time be past,
Though all the summer skies be overcast,
Haply I will go down to her, some day,
And cast my rests of life before her feet,
That she may have her will of me, being so sweet
And none gainsay!

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