title: Blues in Black and White: A Collection of Essays, Poetry and Conversations
author:  May Ayim 
description: These poems [have] passion and irony and always a strong magnetic force... -- <i>Maryse Cond, from the introduction to the German edition</i>
zlib_text: BLACK
  ROCK
  WHITE
  CITY
  
  BLACK ROCK WHITE CITY
  A. S. PATRIĆ
  
  MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
  www.transitlounge.com.au
  Copyright © A.S. Patrić 2015
  First Published 2015
  Transit Lounge Publishing
  This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of
  private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the
  Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written
  permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher.
  Cover image: Furious Angels by Smitty B from the series
  “Failing the Rorscach Test”
  Author image: kipscottphoto.com
  Cover and book design: Peter Lo
  Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group
  A cataloguing-in-publication entry is available from the National Library of
  Australia: http://catalogue.nla.gov.au
  ISBN: 978-1-921924-88-0
  
  for Emily
  my love
  
  Wherever I look there are poems
  —whatever I touch is pain.
  Ivo Andrić
  
  CHAPTER
  ONE
  Jovan pushes the switch. The windowless room shudders with white
  flashes. He holds the cleaning caddy tight an