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Untitled (Once Upon a Time) \u00a9 Monika Sosnowski<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a poem by Adam Zagajewski from Mysticism for Beginners:<\/p>\n

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TRANSFORMATION<\/p>\n

I haven’t written a single poem
\nin months.
\nI’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
\npondering the riddle of power
\nand the reasons for obedience.
\nI’ve watched sunsets
\n(crimson, anxious),
\nI’ve heard the birds grow quiet
\nand night’s muteness.
\nI’ve seen sunflowers dangling
\ntheir heads at dusk, as if a careless hangman
\nhad gone strolling through the gardens.
\nSeptember’s sweet dust gathered
\non the windowsill and lizards
\nhid in the bends of walls.
\nI’ve taken long walks,
\ncraving one thing only:
\nlightning,
\ntransformation,
\nyou.<\/p>\n

(translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh and published in:\u00a0<\/em>Adam Zagajewski – Without End – New and Selected Poems, <\/em><\/strong>Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2002<\/em>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here’s a poem by Adam Zagajewski from Mysticism for Beginners:   TRANSFORMATION I haven’t written a single poem in months. I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper, pondering the riddle of power and the reasons for obedience. I’ve watched sunsets (crimson, anxious), I’ve heard the birds grow quiet and night’s muteness. I’ve seen sunflowers dangling their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}