Poem

Snezana Zabic

from THE LANDSCAPE BOOK

pine trees are scared;
their shadows getting longer as we speak

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shadows draw out
across the park and all the way
to the curb—cars will soon run them over

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tomorrow at 2 PM
local ballet academy
will perform
Coppelia
in the factory hall
(complimentary sandwiches and soft drinks)

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cello player's thin
physique—a tear surprised me
(he died the next year)

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maybe if I knew the language of dogs
but then again, maybe not

Snezana Zabic

Snezana Zabic was born in Croatia in 1974 and currently lives in Chicago. She writes in English and Serbo-Croatian and has been translated into Polish, Swedish, and Macedonian. Her poems in English appeared in Papertiger: New World Poetry, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Optimism, and elsewhere.

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