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RECENT POLISH POEMS

RECENT POLISH POEMS FORaMINIFERa Well then, let’s take the Foraminifera. They lived, since they were, and were, since they lived. They did what they could since they were able. In the plural since the plural, although each one on its own, in its own, since in its own small limestone shell. Time summarized them later in layers, since layers, without going into details, since there’s pity in the details. And so I have before me two views in one: a mournful cemetery made 16:1 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2009-066 © 2010 by Duke University Press of tiny eternal rests or, rising from the sea, the azure sea, brilliant white cliffs, cliffs that are here because they are. — Wisława Szymborska OTHERS may close, but this one, impalpable, so painfully exposed, stopping you from living — and still keeping you alive, this one only, for ever unhealed, for you alone, may it remain open — Ryszard Krynicki CITy Above all it prizes order, cleanliness, and thrift: the synagogue became a public pool, the market parking lots betray no trace of Jewish graves. — Ryszard Krynicki I WaS HERE A flash, a beam’s dying hieroglyph on plaster — and the stubborn, helplessly repeated spell “Kilroy was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

RECENT POLISH POEMS

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FORaMINIFERa Well then, let’s take the Foraminifera. They lived, since they were, and were, since they lived. They did what they could since they were able. In the plural since the plural, although each one on its own, in its own, since in its own small limestone shell. Time summarized them later in layers, since layers, without going into details, since there’s pity in the details. And so I have before me two views in one: a mournful cemetery made 16:1 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2009-066 © 2010 by Duke University Press of tiny eternal rests or, rising from the sea, the azure sea, brilliant white cliffs, cliffs that are here because they are. — Wisława Szymborska OTHERS may close, but this one, impalpable, so painfully exposed, stopping you from living — and still keeping you alive, this one only, for ever unhealed, for you alone, may it remain open — Ryszard Krynicki CITy Above all it prizes order, cleanliness, and thrift: the synagogue became a public pool, the market parking lots betray no trace of Jewish graves. — Ryszard Krynicki I WaS HERE A flash, a beam’s dying hieroglyph on plaster — and the stubborn, helplessly repeated spell “Kilroy was

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Published: Jan 1, 2010

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