The Great Healer

Life inflicts wounds
And lets time take over.

Time
Quietly rolls up its sleeves
Watches
Feels with its fingers and asks:
Does it hurt?
Hurts less now?
Then it rinses
And applies assorted herbs
First this one
Then that one.

And then it wraps
it slowly keeps wrapping
its white bandages
over the wounds.

Grigor Vitez

Translation by
Marija Andraka

Exhibition

On the occasion on the centenary of birth of the famous Croatian poet Grigor Vitez, founder of contemporary children's poetry, the exhibition Grigor Vitez - Living in Books will be organized at the entrance hall of Zagreb City Library, Starčevićev trg 6, from 2nd November till 3th December 2011.

The exhibition will present author's books, photographs and objects from the author's legacy which will be borrowed from the author's daughter Olga Vitez - Babić, as well as original illustrations of academic painter Svjetlan Junaković, the winner of The Golden Bird of Grigor Vitez Award.

Author of the exhibition is Librarian Adviser Ranka Javor, the head of Croatian Centre for Children's Book at Zagreb City Libraries.