suddenly this forceful effort
hard dull dark stuff palpable
in the stomach suddenly an unfamiliar weight
a flattening of the world outside rotations of a rubik’s cube
in a well-practised hand suddenly a rumbling
from the street below receding a drifting off of colours into grey
suddenly a name spelled out in red-hot wire
across the world one name for all that is one
a name a symptom of a bygone us a name stiffening
to senselessness to sameness a name suddenly
birds suddenly a skyline a breaking down of light
suddenly the sadness reappears
translation: Katja Zakrajšek