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Since the envoys had brought news of the arrival of the Emperor, Bolesław’s kingdom had been overwhelmed by an all-encompassing state of commotion. Aside from the settlers living deep within the deepest forests, there was probably no one who did not, in some way or other, (...)
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The phones are always going wrong, so my parents aren’t upset when there’s no dialling tone. They’re at the fortieth birthday party of a female friend from their class at high school. They say they’re going downstairs to the phone booth for a (...)
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Agnieszka KuciakRetardation
After Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you Nobody too?
Shall we write our names into a draft
of the world and into one poem together?
Perhaps you are the First Line
and I am your Rhyme?
But how are we to state our case
if we're Nobody and Nobody?
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For W.
Maybe there's something left when we're not there?
Someone still stares at the world, and that stare
Hangs suspended like a dragonfly
Polishing the surface of the air.
That's when the shadow of a tree soaks in water, the tongue
Of a lake licks the shore, a path goes for a wander,
Vision dresses the wound between
sky and water, rippled with wrinkles and laughter.
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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