| 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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Julian KornhauserBeen and Gone
A Piece of Glass
has blood on it
a scarcely visible droplet
of blood
lifted from the floor
grits its teeth
it belonged to a glass
those were the days
when tea nestled down
in it gently
it felt its cheeks grow flushed
with emotion
the world seemed
so pure and noble
deprived now of wholeness
with the trace of human pain
it falls into the bin's abyss
and shatters into nothingness
Been and Gone
been and gone
between been and gone a small white hairline crack
a narrow pass an insignificant pause
but that was where so much happened
of flights and falls of feeling
anticipations dancing in dreams
meetings on hills and at the edge of woods
been - what's hot and supple in sudden illumination
was foolish treacherous but filled with unknown meaning
is gone for its foundations didn't tremble
little been little gone
been long
gone just like that
and in between dry grass touched with the scythe of the sun
the monastery on the river the train's troubling rumble
tiny pieces of gravel on the road to the valley
Translated by Jean Ward
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