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Today Mother asked me and Milan again: "And you really didn't
dream about her at all?"
Actually, I had seen my late sister two more times in my dreams and
she always looked like in those photos in the drawing-room which I kissed
and over which I cried.
Why can't I talk about that?
Why don't I feel the need to at least tell my mother a lie and thus
comfort her?
I cannot cry at her breast anymore.
I am sullen.
Tomorrow I am to be examined in three subjects, and I haven't been
studying at all. That is, I study, but I don't understand what I read. And I
can no longer ask my mother to go and beg for me.
The teachers told me I will get an
F.
I am sad. My mother noticed it
today and said: "What's the matter? You have changed so much since your
sister died...." And she kissed my hair.
How does she interpret it? Will she defend me in front of Father if I
fail in school?
I think she will. ...She loved me and my sister so much.
And so did
1. .. .
Translated from the Croatian
by
Ljiljana
SCurie
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN
SUMMER 1999 - June 20-August 27
Workshops and Residencies in Creative Writing and Visual Arts
1999 Creative Writing Faculty includes:
Dean Albarelli
Agha Shahid Ali
Robin Becker
AmjBloom
Michael Cunnirqham
Peter Ho Davies
MarkDoty
Maria Flook
Marde Hershman
Pam Houston
Marie Howe
Cynthia Huntirgton
Michael Klein
Yusef
Komunyakaa
Fred
Leebron
Paul
Usicky
Sara London
Thomas
Lux
Cleopatra Mathis
Gail Mazur
Richard McCann
Elizabeth McCracken
Sigrid Nunez
Grace Paley
Robert Pinsky
Louise Rafkin
Kathryn Rhett
David Rivard
UzRosenberg
Heidi Jon Schmidt
Gerald Stem
Jean Valentine
AJ.
Verdelle
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Summer Program, FAWC , 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
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