Conversation (I)

A two-legged bag
stops me on the street
and asks me
                 what I'm carrying
in bags
under my arm
carrying carrying carrying

Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Dead Nightingale
Dead Hen

Credit

Author

Novica Tadić

Novica Tadić, born in Montenegro in 1949, was a Serbian poet and the author of over a dozen poetry collections, including Dark Things (BOA Editions, 2009) and Night Mail: Selected Poems (Oberlin College Press, 1992). He died in 2011.

Date Published

01/01/2009