From the Threshold, as the title suggests, offers a perspective on life where the mystery of existence appears in a sometimes disturbing but also existential and metaphysical way. This collection of poems seeks to portray a look at the experience of existence with eyes that see into both directions of that “threshold”.

To be at the “threshold” is not only to be at an entrance, at a door, but also at an exit. The work collects musings about existence in a style that might remind us of Hawthorne or Poe, but also of Vallejo.

Its distinctive touch is given by the personal and enigmatic interpretation of reality, including metaphysical topics, sometimes through risky literary figures, which often seek original grammatical constructions to manifest mental images, in an attempt to paint concepts of a personal philosophy of life. “The necessary symbols are there to communicate what is unknown to us, what we cannot grasp, attempting to manifest this daily and absolutely enigmatic practice called: life”, says the author.

My Chest as a Sarcophagus

My chest is a sarcophagus

Without a corpse,

A somber shell

Filled with silence.

My chest suffocating

With leftover bones,

As a mournful keyboard

Of broken mysteries.

My chest

Is a hard alien armor,

A vessel filled

With cast-iron shadows.

Translated by Marko Miletich

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