There is nothing more annoying to me than not being able to find an original-language version of a poem. I could find some Serbian scholarly writing on this poem (ah the кристал-женка!) and Tadić’s work, but not the whole poem itself. Bah!
Icicle
–Novica Tadić
The icicle is a crystal-woman
cold sweetheart
I know all about her
because she’s my sweetheartWe meet in the old park
secretly
under the treesHer red-haired servants
the squirrels
come down for herso they may eat
something too
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