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From the Archive: Dunja Lukic (CAROUSEL 16)

By Staff · On July 23, 2020

DUNJA LUKIC

December 1992

I.

It was in the shadows
of a dark first winter
when the stars were frozen in the night dome
and even with our spinning
we couldn’t shake them from the sky
held our hungry mouths open
waiting for those falling universes to explode on our tongues

expectant

hoping our bellies would be swollen with stars.

II.

With wide seven year old eyes
that same winter
the sky was colorless
it was snowing
I saw stars in white tufts around me
and I held bits of the universe
in
small
frost-bitten
hands
my skin screaming a

victorious

red.

III.

Years later
standing at the bus stop in September
when the wind began to stir up winter blood
I shivered
(as I thought I would)
but you stood unmoved
your white hands
the colour of rain …
Summer still lingered on my skin
its dry cinnamon days already

faded

the winters of a Mediterranean childhood
were never this cold.

Dunja Lukic lived in Guelph, ON at the time of this original publication (2004); the above poem was her first appearance in a literary publication. Current whereabouts unknown.

December 1992
appeared in CAROUSEL 16 (2004) — buy it here

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