Calm
- Guram Kikabidze
- 29. tra
- 1 min čitanja
Calm
The helmsman runs with a broken wheel in his hands. Lost in the dark.
I am calm.
A wave drenches me with salt water.
I am calm.
The ship overturns.
I am calm.
My ship goes to the bottom.
I am calm.
I drift in a life ring, clutching a log, unknown where to.
Calm.
Thrown against rocks — my head unbroken.
Still calm.
Some kind of island around me. Seagulls shouting.
Calm.
I see food. Calm.
I see natives. Calm.
They will not touch me. I do not look like food.
Calm.
In general — we live.
Calm.
Biography: Guram Kikabidze is a Georgian poet whose work explores time, illusion, displacement, and freedom through restrained yet symbolically charged language. He lives and works between languages.
Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-sailboat-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean-XA8xxmPdMZY) 16. 4. 2026.
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