Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski

Author:Adam Zagajewski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

SANDALS

The sandals I bought many years ago

for twenty euros

in the Greek village of Theologos

on the island of Thassos

haven’t worn out at all,

they’re just like new.

I must have gotten,

quite accidentally,

a hermit’s, a saint’s sandals.

How they must suffer,

carrying an ordinary sinner.

REHEARSAL

Or when she said: you shouldn’t

care what other people do—

but after all she cared …

When she corrected my compositions.

When she quoted, almost always incorrectly,

what Joseph Conrad

once said on the nature of writing,

when she got lost in thought, but never completely,

when she walked down a street of our provincial

town as if it were Paris,

when she looked at me curiously,

and I wasn’t sure if

she was looking at me or at some

ideal notion of a son, when she got sick,

as usual excessively, and then, when

she really started getting sick

and I thought that it was still

just a rehearsal, but it was already

the beginning of dying

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