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Antun Branko Simic

Poetry

Summer 2004

Death and I

By Antun Branko Simic, translated by Courtney Angela Brkic

From the Croatian.   Death is not outside of me. She is in me from the very beginning: growing with me at every moment                          One day I halt                          but she […]