| You think you’re going to experience something, and you may even actually experience it, but then suddenly you realize that you didn’t experience anything, and it doesn’t bother you at all. It doesn’t bother you that you can’t remember anything about what you didn’t experience and what you experienced. It doesn’t (...)
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| | Down Garwolińska to the end, then hang a right onto Makowska along the railroad tracks toward Olszynka. Sometimes all the way to the roundhouse. The street looked like a village road; on hot days it would be lined with guys sitting and drinking. Branches of fruit trees reached over the fences. (...)
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Jolanta StefkoI Don't Like Anybody but Myself
About the book
I Don't Like Anybody but Myself
To be closer. To be for.
Watching carelessly the careful
Reflections of lights on the Vistula.
Swans float up. From which
Fairy-tale. How long ago. How
Long ago. Now you speak.
One Safe Place
Our land is closed, mountains everywhere
and over them a roof, low sky, day and night
JORGOS SEFERIS
I
Iced-up, snowed-in days
Grey, heavy mist
- further than a hundred metres
nothing to be seen, maybe further on
nothing exists?
II
The mountains wrapped in silence, the trees,
The currant and gooseberry bushes sifted
With sun pollen (has
the sun not turned
into a lump of glimmering mist?)
III
A wall of mist which
Lets pass no
Lights from the after all not
So distant other
Houses. Before whom has God
Closed this place?
- Before the Jehovah's Witnesses
- Before the chimneysweep (once
every
quarter)
- Before the postman
- Before the priest's Christmas visit
- Before the collectors (the
electricity man and the gas man) But
Before death, would he be able to
Translated by Magdalena Heydel
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