The little friend
- That which you seek does not exist
- this longing reminiscent of:
- hidden chambers, fancy locks and rusted keys, vertigous staircases
- from: dreams, art photography, German films
- black & white though mostly yellow, set in 1930s,
- with boys in sailor suits
- spying on carnal secrets in musty bedrooms
- vacant streets from disaster films:
- everyone dies except for the boy
- hiding from zombies (that crouch in the back of our heads)
- running across the city square
- nobody talks about the camps and cattle trains filled with people
- and we all pretend that it's a story of austerity and loss of green fields
- This feeling terrible but complete,
- this place unknown outside inner spaces
- one suspects it but cannot touch
- in J.C's boxes,
- indescribable collages juxtaposing the impossible with the unsaid
- perfect accord of their separtely attained truths
- some questionable
- Your truths cannot be described
- tin dolls with painted faces, eerie ballerinas
- with eyelashes of copper, smells never yet described
- places
- of which nothing can be said
- they don't exist
- this is their residing place
- – the nowhere
- – the never
- – the now
- Ksenija Simic-Muller once lived in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, where she published a collection of short stories and a collection of poems. She now spends most of her time being an educator focusing on social justice mathematics. She is not related to Charles Simic.