A collection of poems „Palimpsests“ was called after a cycle of the same name Niko Grafenauer published in 1978 in „Troubles“. The poems from the Palimpsests have been written in the period from the mid-1970s, simultaneously with the development of the post-modernism in Slovenia. Prior to that, in 1975, Grafenauer published “Stuccos”, a poetic pinnacle and as the same time the ending of Slovenian modernism. A techno-poetic clinamen in “Palimpsests” is graded down, all the way until the deflection has grown so huge it has completely opened up with the poetic content pouring through a sonnet form. Firstly both sonnet tercets grow into quatrains, then the metric plan continues to grow wider or – through another method – in terms of the number of verses it shrinks and re-establishes the space for free poetry verses. Consequently “Palimpsests” are a way livelier in terms of the metrics. This lively quality reflects at rhythmical, semantic, emotional, existential and thematic levels. In a seeming opposition with the liveliness, the balancing of “Palimpsests” lies in the one-ness. The opposition is only illusional as the one-ness in Grafenauer’s poetry does not imply the usual contents – the one-ness of the world within which there is no rift between the truth and the illusion but between the appearances and the invisible, the reality and the secrecy.