Vasko Popa (1922 - 1991)

Vasko Popa was a Serbian poet, born in June 29, 1922, in Grebenac, Serbia, and died Jan. 5, 1991, in Belgrade. He wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed more to French surrealism and Serbian folk traditions than to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II.

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First Line	Comments
to Karl Max Ostojic
Don't box down to the little box
Don't open the little box
Each strips his own skin
Enough chattering violets enough sweet trash
From the wrinkle between my brows
Get out of my walled infinity
Give me back my rags
Green gloves rustle
I've wiped your face off my face
Just come to my mind
Line the inside of the little box
Look here's that uninvited
Nobody rests
Not even in a dream
Once upon a time there was a mistake
Once upon a time there was a number	11 Comments
Open little box
Shut one eye then the other
Sing little box
Some bite from the others
Someone embraces me	1 Comment
Someone hides from someone else
The little box gets her first teeth
The little box which contains the world
The nights are running out of darkness
Throw into the little box
Toothed eyes fly
Unquiet you walk
Until her last breath she enlarges
We raise our arms
We'll return the little box