Marzanna Bogumila Kielar
Winter Elegy
how fast: the calm avarice of white;
a fragile flock of crows darkens, vanishes in the cracks of the road.
My breath bright on the window-pane. Subdued with purple, vast,
wide-open fields. Dried-out ponds, docile
as under the touch of a gentle hand,
as if it wasn’t a bandage of frost.
Hills are cooling over the tops of apple-trees and alders,
a window in the distance lights up. Sparks of warmth wander
into the ashes of dusk
and, not thinking, I break up a slice of bread:
we, how fast, into the cracks of time, hollow
and like stone.
a fragile flock of crows darkens, vanishes in the cracks of the road.
My breath bright on the window-pane. Subdued with purple, vast,
wide-open fields. Dried-out ponds, docile
as under the touch of a gentle hand,
as if it wasn’t a bandage of frost.
Hills are cooling over the tops of apple-trees and alders,
a window in the distance lights up. Sparks of warmth wander
into the ashes of dusk
and, not thinking, I break up a slice of bread:
we, how fast, into the cracks of time, hollow
and like stone.
Translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese
Page(s) 29
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