Peter Rezman

Born in 1956 in Celje, lives in Plešivec, Velenje. In 1975 he got a job as an electrician at the mine where he stayed until 1990. Then he went on to work at the municipalities of Velenje and Šoštanj. Retired.
He started publishing his poetry in the 1970s. In 1983 he was featured in the Anthology of Slovenian Mining Poetry. In 1985 he published his first book of poetry Pesmi iz premoga (Poetry from Coal) and the short story collection Kiril Lajš ni lastnik krčme Peter Rezman (Kiril Lajš Is Not the Owner of Peter Rezman Inn). In 1991 he published the poetry collection Črno in črno, rdeče in rdeče, zeleno in zeleno (Black and Black, Red and Red, Green and Green), followed by the poetry collection Družmirje in 1998. In 2014 he published the picture book Žvalinjak (The Animal Haunt).

(Foto: Tihomir Pinter)

Zidani most

Tako preprosto ne nazadnje tudi ni, prestopati iz

ene ljubezni v drugo. Ljubezen je v srcu in vedno
ena sama in vedno enaka. Srce pa ni takšno, kot
Zidani

most, kamor prihaja veliko vlakov iz treh smeri
in je možno prestopati po mili volji in odhajati
v tri različne smeri. Kri je samo ena in ista in
kroži

skozi eno srce. V tem je bistvo stvari. Oboki
kamnitega mostu se pnejo visoko nad reko.
Niso iz gladkih mišic. Kamniti most je iz
kamna.

Čeprav okoli mostu nenehno drsijo plazovi
in poti nad Zidanim mostom izginjajo kot za
šalo, je ta čvrst. Skrit v soteski in varen pred
letalskimi

napadi in izlivi ljubezni pod kamnitimi oboki
in nekatere pravijo, da imam kamen namesto
srca.

(Poetikon 67-68, 2016)