What is Tamara Saying with the Milk Bottle’s Nipple in her Mouth?
Only this:
Let no one harass the kitten
let none shoot down
bear-cubs in the forest
let not birch trees wither
hit by ammunition
let everybody on this earth
live as friends
let death return
the ones it has taken away
let there be no earthquake
let all aeroplanes land safely
let my father complete his poem
let all fathers become poets.
-Izet Sarajlic. (Adapted by Sitakant Mahapatra, from a translation by Marilyn Sjoberg.)