Sunday, December 2, 2012
the poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz
Here's a couple of links about this poet:
The Virginia Quarterly Review
culture.pl
Here's two poems (translated by Adam Czerniawski):
A Visit
I couldn't recognize her
when I came in here
just as well it's possible
to take so long arranging these flowers
in this clumsy vase
'Don't look at me like that'
she said
I stroke the cropped hair
with my rough hand
'they cut my hair' she says
'look what they've done to me'
now again that sky-blue spring
begins to pulsate beneath the transparent
skin of her neck as always
when she swallows tears
why does she stare like that
I think I must go
I say a little too loudly
and I leave her,
a lump in my throat
The Return
Suddenly the window will open
and Mother will call
it's time to come in
the wall will part
I will enter heaven in muddy shoes
I will come to the table
and answer questions rudely
I am all right leave me
alone. Head in hand I
sit and sit. How can I tell them
about that long
and tangled way.
Here in heaven mothers
knit green scarves
flies buzz
Father dozes by the stove
after six days' labour.
No--surely I can't tell them
that people are at each
other's throats.
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