Zajc Dane:
Scorpions
loners
light hurts them
they nourish themselves on shards of dusk
they live in worm ridden towers
homeless
squeezed between the stones
in cracks, crevices
flattened by the weight
which rolls over them
at times they shoot up up into the silence
up up into the coldness
at times their white blood quivers in voiceless songs
on the summit of solitude
there under a rainy night
they climb and let out a silent scream
from a distant heart answers a distant scream
and the screams multiply
in the dismembered depths
deep down under a black sky
they quickly burn
and silently fade
they live with their poison
aimed at their own hearts
Dane Zajc
(1929-2005) A poet, essayist, and playwright who, until his retirement, worked as a librarian in Ljubljana. Considered the doyen of postwar poets, he was active in the foundation of numerous literary magazines, including Review 57 (Revija 57), Problems (Problemi) and Perspectives (Perspektive), which he also edited. His lyrical poems displayed dark and depressing atmospheres, and were suffused with stark existentialist images which helped undermine the then-obligatory aesthetics of socialist realism. In the 1960s, with the advent of neoavant-garde writing, Zajc's poems won renewed appreciation and became part of the national canon. Zajc also writes for children (poems, prose and plays). He is best known, however, for his poetic plays, such as Children of the River (Otroka reke). A former Fulbright fellow at Columbia University in New York , he has seen the publication of his collected works in five volumes in 1990. Zajc received the Prešeren Prize for lifetime achievement in 1981.By the same author
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