Ivan Dobnik - Vilenica

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I’m practicing the realistic approach to the world:
I study details of plant bodies,
I disassemble the world into clean shapes,
and you into respective motivations
I depersonalize myself
Trees, branches,
muscles on trunks
Through motion,
my herbal essence develops
into resilient wood
Individual differences are
long overcome
I start with tiny stones,
before I move on to boulders
From negligible details
into infinity.
Through diminution, I avoid
ambitions and megalomania
Although exaggeration helps me
free myself from dependence
on accuracy
Tiny stones
precisely measured
selected
by shape, size
smoothness or degree of shine
None of them avoided
the stare of Medusa
Ľubica Somolayová · 261
Translated by Pavol Lukáč