Marzanna Bogumila Kielar
‘The line of snow and light …’
the line of snow and night – sun like a freezing stone,
ruddy porphyry, under the apron of rock rubble,
weathered waste that slides down, piles ellipses
above the horizon; the barren edge
of a January day, frost-powdered air. Birches
drawn in chalk on the snow, left to the rains.
Startled by the noise of an engine,
crows are whirling.
Ice has long fed on water and the marrow of days, it claims
the glass of the unheated verandah; things have cooled down
and each in its mould
is ready to be taken out.
The ice dust sparkles, strews the balcony, from nowhere –
as if in the sunlight a snow bridge trembled, high up,
over a hidden crevice
ruddy porphyry, under the apron of rock rubble,
weathered waste that slides down, piles ellipses
above the horizon; the barren edge
of a January day, frost-powdered air. Birches
drawn in chalk on the snow, left to the rains.
Startled by the noise of an engine,
crows are whirling.
Ice has long fed on water and the marrow of days, it claims
the glass of the unheated verandah; things have cooled down
and each in its mould
is ready to be taken out.
The ice dust sparkles, strews the balcony, from nowhere –
as if in the sunlight a snow bridge trembled, high up,
over a hidden crevice
Translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese
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