Unseen Hand: Poems by Adam Zagajewski

Author:Adam Zagajewski
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781466884250
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

NEXT SPRING

The nations were exhausted after many wars

and lay serenely in their marriage beds

vast as the Danube river basin.

Spring had begun, the first ecstasies.

In the boughs of trees, still naked,

Turkish turtle doves were cooing.

No one knew what to do, what to think.

We were orphans, since winter

had left us no testament;

a young butterfly studied flying

haphazardly, from scratch.

Butterflies lack tradition.

But we must die.

This is an inelegant

way to end a poem,

R protests. And adds:

A poem should end

better than a life. That’s the point.

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