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· Photo of Nina Puslar and Nina Medved courtesy of Neza Verbic ·
Nina Medved, poet, photographer, translator and contributor to the Urban Book Circle
The Whole World Burns for You
The whole world burns for you, Sara Mejal.
The whole world burns for you, when you lay to bed;
Because you're afraid of the dark, we leave the light on
In the little globe on your night stand
That you perhaps got for your birthday,
For Christmas, from the Easter bunny.

The whole world burns for you, Sara Mejal.
Its rivers glow brightly
Over the warm light of the light bulb,
Its oceans wave as the little globe
Turns around its axis,
Right next to your head, heavy with fatigue,
Chewing over the day’s events.
Today you almost simultaneously traveled all the continents with your finger,
Your index was the passport to all the lands of the world, when
It circled: Europe, Russia, China, North America, South America, look,
There's the white Antarctica that no traveling finger touched for
Quite a while now,
And all these little archipelagos, arching from the sea
Like inflated bellies of whales.

The whole world burns for you, Sara Mejal.
This evening and the next,
Until you’'re old enough for the light of imagination
To slowly fade out and with it all your fears.
Go to sleep now. You have nothing to fear until morning
And mommy and daddy are in the next room.
The Indians, the Chinese with slanting eyes,
The Eskimos and the French with their berets,
They will all wait patiently for
Your index finger to come and visit.
So go to sleep now, Sara Mejal… Go to sleep…
Nina Medved,
poet, photographer, translator and contributor to the Urban Book Circle
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The Whole World Burns for You by Nina Medved
  • Jon Kovacevic, librarian | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | January 12, 2015
I love it, big time!
· Poem & Photographs: Nina Medved / All rights reserved 2015. Copyright © Nina Medved ·
· Translated from Slovenian to English by Nina Medved & Bostjan Kmetec
All rights reserved 2015. Copyright © Nina Medved & Bostjan Kmetec ·
· Photo of Samuel Beckett’s bookshelf in the study of his apartment at the Boulevard St Jacques in Paris courtesy of John Minihan / All rights reserved 1985. Copyright © John Minihan ·
· Photo of Nina Puslar and Nina Medved courtesy of Neza Verbic
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· Design & Artwork by Djuradj Vujcic and Prvoslav Vujcic · Illustrated by Sarah Riordan and Deidre McAuliffe ·
· Edited by Djuradj Vujcic, Prvoslav Vujcic, Deidre McAuliffe, Sarah Riordan and Danijela Kovacevic Mikic ·
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Last updated on January 12, 2015.
Published by Urban Book Circle on January 11, 2015
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