:: SlovoKult:: literARTour :: 2020 ::

Biennial of contemporary arts2::

:: 02 :: Josip Kocev :: Eike Laeuen

 

Aleph                     :: DE :: MK ::

 

Aleph,

you are the first letter of the alphabet

with which my soul writes,

the town where I played hide-and-seek

was suddenly hiding from me,

it had to be tagged by me

and I had to grow up overnight.

Aleph,

Yesterday the blood price dropped

on the world’s stock markets,

and the home I left behind

suddenly grew inside me.

Aleph,

now windows and doors are beating

all night long in my chest,

as if somebody comes and goes,

from the void where I don’t exist either…

Aleph,

if I write heavy words on the walls,

are they gonna collapse?

If I spread out the last nightmare,

will I dream again?

Aleph,

You are the first letter of the alphabet

with which my soul writes.

If I follow this path to the end,

am I going to get somewhere?

 

English translation :: Elizabeta Lindner with deepL and Nadia Crocker

Eike Laeuen :: Untitled ::