그림자의 장인

그림자의 장인

너는 영원토록 걷네

너 자신의 무한함을 따라

머리부터 발끝까지 그리고 다시 되돌아

너 자신을 비추네

네 머릿속에는 태양의 정점이 있고

발뒤꿈치에는 빛의 스러짐이 있네

황혼이 오기 전 너는 네 그림자들을 풀어놓네

길어지고 멀어지도록

기적과 경외를 만들어 내고

스스로에게 절하도록

태양이 정점에 이르면

너는 그림자들을 본래의 크기로 돌려놓네

너에게 절하는 법을 가르치고

절을 하며 사라지게 하네

너는 오늘도 이곳을 걷네

그러나 그림자들 때문에

너는 보이지 않네

The shadow maker

You walk through a whole eternity

Along your personal infinity

From head to heels and back

You shine on yourself

In your head is the zenith

In your heels the setting of your shining

Before the setting you let your shadows

Stretch move away

Work miracles and shame

And bow to themselves

At the zenith you cut the shadows back

To their proper size

You teach them to bow to you

And as they bow they disappear

You walk this way even today

But you can't be seen for shadows

(Vasko Popa Selected Poems, translated by Anne Pennington, Penguin Books, 1969)

The shadow maker

You walk forever and ever

Over your own individual infinity

From head to heel and back

You're your own source of light

The zenith is in your head

In your heel its setting

Before it dies you let your shadows out

To lengthen to estrange themselves

To work miracles and shame

And bow down only to themselves

At zenith you reduce the shadows

To their proper size

You teach them to bow to you

And as they bow down to disappear

You're coming this way even today

But the shadows won't let us see you

(Homage to the lame wolf, translated by Charles Simic, Oberlin College Press, 1987)

The shadow maker

You pace back and forth

Along your private infinity

Head to heel and back

You're your own source of light

The zenith is in your head

In your heel is your night

At sunset you let your shadows out

To lengthen to distance themselves

To work miracles and create scandals

And bow down only to themselves

At zenith you shrink the shadows

To their proper size

You teach them to bow to you

And as they do to disappear

You pace around here even today

But the shadows won't let us see you

(translated by Charles Simic, 2019)

MAJSTOR SENKI (손글씨 메모: Shadow Master)

Hodaš čitavu večnost Po svom ličnom beskraju Od glave do pete i natrag

Obasjavaš sam sebe U glavi ti je zenit U peti smiraj sjaja

Pred smiraj puštaš svoje senke Da se izduže da se udalje Da stvaraju čuda i pokor I sebi da se klanjaju

U zenitu svodiš senke Na njihovu pravu meru Učiš ih tebi da se poklone I u poklonu nestanu

Hodaš ovuda i dan-danas Ali se od senki ne vidiš

(PESME, 1985)