Špiranec Kristina: Iza srca, grad kupina

Kristina Špiranec: Behind the heart, the city of blackberries

The poetic manuscript Behind the heart, the city of blackberries is a geographical and symbolic journey through urban and rural areas, a journey through which new possibilities of identity and consciousness, love and female freedom are sought. It is a collection in which the city becomes an interlocutor, a space whose streets, parks and haustori become meeting places (with oneself). The collection contains three related cycles, Pointers for Red, I'll Give You My Eyes, and The Color of the Edges and the Long Journey Home, which announce or round off lyrical lines in which boundaries are crossed, invisible membranes are broken, followed by quiet, subtle changes in being. The lyrical heroine is constantly questioning her place in the world, simultaneously questioning the meaning of poetry itself. Thus, for example, in the poignant poem Towards the Stars, which presents one of the tragic fates of the village, he asks the fateful question: Go clean wood at the neighbor's house, or write a poem. The problem of writing, therefore, is woven into the question of identity, which is sought in this poetic manuscript precisely on the way, in movement, getting to know different locations and realizing one's own limitations and lack of freedom. It is precisely in the questions and unusual points that one finds one's own voice, for example, when the lyrical protagonist asks: Can watches be loved?, identifying her own face with the clock mechanism, with the one that constantly records and points to the porosity of human destinies. At the same time, in observing and distinguishing all kinds of external and internal landscapes, colors become places of meaning anchors and warnings, such as the lights of city traffic lights or the golden color from Klimt's paintings. The colors and sounds of the city and nature, as well as the silence of solitude and contemplation, are the points from which many nuances of sensitivity of this poetry emerge. The most important insights come from Zen's, apersonal reflections, in which sameness is found in diversity, simultaneity in diversity. Behind the heart, the city of blackberries is a poetic manuscript that, intertwining the colors and lines of different localities, human traces and the laws of nature, testifies to the strange connection, but also the relativity of everything that surrounds us.