Kovič Kajetan:
Garden of Gold
The chill and the damp under the pine tree.
The long shadow over the dark house.
Grapes, blue as dreams.
In curtained rooms,
dying fathers,
whose punishment is sons
left behind in wars,
entranced by the cuckoos’ singing.
In the garden, the yellow autumn hour,
and under sweaters,
the warm breasts of girls,
as they lie down horizontal
under the curiosity of boys,
and as above them, blue as death,
ripens the isabella.
Kajetan Kovič
(1931 - ) A poet, writer and translator. He graduated in comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. For many years Kovič worked as a journalist and editor; now as a freelance writer. In 1978 he won the Prešeren Prize for lifetime achievement. Kovič is the author of widely read fiction for adolescents and poetry for children. In addition, he has published four novels. Kovič, an excellent translator of Eluard, Rilke, Trakl and other twentieth century poets, writes with a professed allegiance to strict form and neo-Romantic imagination. His poems of loss, the melancholy passing of time, and major historical disruptions as they are revealed in everyday details, produced some of the most popular as well as highly accomplished poems. His work is translated into a number of European languages.By the same author
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