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Sonja Manojlovic [Croatia]

  Not  Everyone is Friedly to You   (Nisu ti baš svi skloni)   Not everyone   is friendly to you, as you think, the world is unfriendly place.   But I have no other family.   Do you hear the summer screams?   Yes, they   descend on   our garden, pluck   heads, they swallow   oxygen and all our babuskhas they will disappear forever like pets through the bush in the corner of our garden       And It Isn’t Allowed   (A to se ne smije)   You smile, even without a collocutor, with your eyes, into space, into a volcano’s crater, to a human face which should be loved   only not to their market-places, not to shadowy places where things and people lose their names   it’s there that shadows of smiles fly over human shadows   You walk through the city, looking into their eyes, and it isn’t allowed You break the door apart and enter, the mouth smiles of its own accord, the mouth does its job – let’s...