Branko Miljkovic - Sonnet about a bird

 It hatches out of a thrown-out stone and

it acts as the pupil of a blind sky,

a little bit of life which has truly taken off 

from our wingless bent-over shoulders.

Oh strange bird whose purpose

is to be the flight of the ground and song

of the deserted sky, which can be heard but it doesn't realize it. Oh, you white

courting of the wind to the flame-bird.

You bird walled up into brain and wall

never met by the sight

found by the hearing inside forest spaces,

in our ears your death was conceived.

Oh you stone-bird may the night cry out for you

to the warm, unreasonable stars. 


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