Each Traveller's Fav

Dobriša Cesarić [1902-1980]

BY TRAIN

translated by Davor Juričić in 2005

Telegraph post, telegraph post,

And a frozen field

And a gaze blasé and lost

And a life not willed.

Scenery and cities change,

But sorrow,

Sorrow remains.

I carry it from border to border,

I carry it from station to station.

I feel like a carriage wheel,

That is always pushed forward,

And forward moves,

But always round its axis –

Turns and turns…