their bell-like bodies / push against my screen's blueness // in the recordings all the same, / opening and closing like chests.

MICRO
In Praise of Anesthesia
I will my alien legs onto the gurney. “You feel something?” asks a nurse, tapping the thin helmet of my belly.

WIT TEA
Internal Memorandum
Stay tuned for next week’s memo, in which I’ll highlight name changes on the yellow spectrum.

TRANSLATION
Daddy’s Boy
(an excerpt)
Translated from Croatian by Vladislav Beronja
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