Microcosmos When we first started looking through microscopes a cold fear blew and it’s still blowing. Life hitherto had been…
Author Wislawa Szymborska
Some Like Poetry Some – thus not all. Not even the majority of all but the minority. Not counting schools,…
Miracle Fair Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles happen. An ordinary miracle: in the dead of night the barking…
Going Home He came home. Said nothing. It was clear, though, that something had gone wrong. He lay down fully…
A Little on the Soul Periodically one has a soul. Nobody has it all the time and forever. Day after…
In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself The buzzard never says it is to blame. The panther wouldn’t know what…
Birthday So much world all at once – how it hustles and bustles! Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels,…
Hunger Camp at Jaslo Write it. Write. In ordinary ink on ordinary paper: they were given no food, they all…
Dreams Despite the geologists’ knowledge and craft, mocking magnets, graphs, and maps— in a split second the dream piles before…
Lot’s Wife They say I looked back out of curiosity. But I could have had other reasons. I looked back…