NO TITLE REQUIRED BY Wislawa Szymborska (Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh) It’s come to this: I’m sitting under a tree, beside a river on a sunny morning. It’s an insignificant event and won’t go down in history. It’s not battles and pacts, whose motives are scrutinized, or noteworthy tyrannicides. And […]
WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
Don’t you hate when your worst nightmare actually occurs? I’ve been fumbling along with this new housemate situation, watching all my oldest childhood triggers being triggered: my conviction that I’m not “allowed” to take up a lot of room, express a need, or make a mistake. And yesterday, having finally arranged my room in more […]