Sv. Frančišek

rasti v nebo,
dokler ne postaneš drevo

poln prebranega dežja in prhke zemlje

kaj ti more veter,
ko se odeneš v cvetje?

neponovljivost je tvoje žezlo

ne zlato ne srebro
nista dala telesa
za mizo, za posteljo

in ko pospijo ptice v tvoji krošnji,
se ne premakneš več

abecedo znamenj zamenja molčanje

© Veronika Dintinjana
Avdio produkcija: LUD Literatura, 2014

St. Francis

grow into the sky
until you become a tree

full of selected rain and crumbled soil

what can the wind do
when you dress up in blossoms

inimitability is your scepter 

neither silver nor gold
have given their body
for a table, a bed

and when birds in your crown fall asleep
you stir no more

silence replaces the alphabet of signs