Dekleva Milan:
Anaximander is Dreaming
A rooster, spy of the light, has taken my head away
and bequeathed it to the river.
A bumble-bee, the stepson of the sun, has stung my shoulder
changing it into dew.
A raven, the charcoal purpose of the fire, has untied my navel
spilling me into the trembling sky.
I was awake.
A trembling body mourned without a shadow.
In the meantime the river has met the sky in the dew.
Milan Dekleva
(1946 - ) A poet, essayist, and translator. He graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana and works as a journalist for several newspapers and television. He has published ten books of poetry including Limping Sonnets (Šepavi soneti, 1995) and three plays as well as a few children's books and musicals. An accomplished jazz pianist and a former rugby player, Dekleva, an award-winning author, rose to a particular prominence in the nineties. His poems and essays which are formally outstanding deal with the modern human condition in the absence of God.By the same author
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