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Neva Lukić (born 1982 in Zagreb), is a writer and a curator, currently living between Zagreb and Belgrade. She is the author of several collections of poetry, short stories, two picture books, a theater play, a radio play and a short experimental film. By practicing interdisciplinary approach towards visual arts and literature she also tends to create artworks close to video, performance or radio / theater play in collaboration with other artists. Her poems and short stories have been published in various magazines, electronic magazines, collections and on the radio. She has participated in festivals of literature, poetry and short films.
She received Zdravko Pucak reward, Croatian Matrix reward for a poetry collection by authors up to thirty years of age (2010).
Crosses of grain
In the days of the crosses,
green wheat
flowed through the city
instead of rivers.
Green wheat,
cane-wheat,
and so the nude
clouds of children
flocked to the river,
fishing for wheat
with their wringing palms.
But the grain slipped
through their fingers,
and the only thing
their eye sockets saw
were skulls
connected by wires.
The children gawked
to the curvature of the sun,
and their eyelids
tumbled
towards the other side,
and what did they see
but tanks
in a warm scone
feeding their dark phalluses
with seeds.