{"id":24048,"date":"2025-07-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/de\/?post_type=stsp_text&#038;p=24048"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:16:59","slug":"poems-vucic","status":"publish","type":"stsp_text","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/text\/poems-vucic\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Total Global Collapse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is, of course, the fact of total global collapse which I am inclined to take too seriously or not seriously enough depending on my mood and the difference in cost between the local book store and amazon.com. We are trying to be better. We are trying to be. The fact is there are no good love poems and most things can be said over email or text, which is not to say that either form is appropriate and certainly neither is profound. \/\/ You told me once that all our planets could fit into the distance between us and the moon and we marvelled at the size of our reality. Maybe I told you that. What I do know is that we talk about the moon often. Once, you turned her into a clementine and the earth into your fist and spun the two slowly to give motion to words like synchronous rotation and tidal locking and still it was impossible to understand. What I do know is that we have measured the distance between us and the moon and judged it not enough. Not for our purposes. What I do know is that the universe is expanding and the moon is moving further away and in a billion years there will be no eclipse. We have talked about this on the wet grass where muddy children played with muddy dogs and we considered the ethics of having either in the face of total global collapse and our upcoming abandonment. I do not want children which might be a political position but is a selfish one too. \/\/ The thing about global collapse, the thing about universal expansion, is that you cannot know just how fast everything is leaving you and in such a state of comprehensive uncertainty what else is there to do but hold on to one another, fiercely. In so far as our moon is concerned, I will let her go with good grace and my blessing, and take joy in the gentle way she unspools herself from us, an inch at a time and without hard feelings. But I cannot but hold tight to this, to now, to us. \/\/ I told you once that I love you the way the sea loves the moon, which is to say I am moved by the fact of your presence, which is to say I am a moth under your light, which is to say many things which are not feminist and would embarrass me if I heard them out loud. The fact is heteronormative love is probably against my politics, but what is politics in the face of total global collapse? And if we are to be set drifting in an untenable and volatile future present, is it not also necessary to take hold of what you love, to hold onto it, even as a thousand big bangs explode into the silence and universes are birthed between us and around us and inside us? \/\/ We have sent each other many photos of the moon, rendered her a glowing orb and fuzzy halo, only to each time apologise for the poor quality of the shot, for the way we have turned her two-dimensional and too small. This is the problem with love poems, this two-dimensional and too small. I concede it might be possible to translate magnitude and scale to the page, but what about splendour, what about joy? What about the soft warmth of my chest in sitting across from you over breakfast? Or the sudden expansiveness in my throat that renders me, momentarily, on the verge of taking flight? Is it not necessary to take the moon in your mouth and collapse into the weight of her? If not, what could gravity do to stop us floating away? \/\/ Inasmuch as there is anything to believe in, there is chance, accident, the question of a good book, unfinished, or: two people and all the time on their hands. Inasmuch as there is anything to believe in, there is the pull across borders, curiosity, and then hunger. There is magnets and the way they move to convergence. There is gravity and the way it binds us into orbit. There is the moon, and the sea. There is my heart calling for yours. There is the fact of total global collapse and the certainty of our uncertain future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Global Collapse There is, of course, the fact of total global collapse which I am inclined to take too seriously or not seriously enough depending on my mood and the difference in cost between the local book store and amazon.com. We are trying to be better. We are trying to be. 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