“The Silent Embryo of Words” Borče Panov, “TheSilent Embryo of Words” Translated into English by Nataša Miladinović Michelangelo painted the Almighty’s will as a red robe in the shape of a denuded brain touching Adam with the forefinger of immortality to portray that all the knots in Heavens are spliced in our skulls, and that a knot can sometimes be freed, and slide down as an umbilical cord to feed the silent embryo of words in us. This was on my mind while my father was being pushed on a hospital cart, and his weak heart was prompted by pacemaker impulses, with electrodes charging the red muscle. My mind, too, was on a harp travelling reposed like my father was with its strings throbbing due to the rugged road. I mused, holding his hand, feeling his pulse, through which he was returning into our lives down the rugged road