Monday, June 11, 2012

by Tomaž Šalamun

Academy of American Poets

Muldoon says Heaney is like the Vasa
ship. Built on three floors,
it was the world's biggest battleship.
It made half a mile
and capsized alone in  harbor.
The warriors are killed by insects
and lack of glycerine.
Scurvy corrodes their skulls.
Spruce trees shake off their seed and snow.
Between Zlatorog and the Savica waterfall
their is no hoarfrost.

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