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WisŁawa Szymborska

A Little Bit About the Soul

Translated by Joanna Trzeciak A soul is something we have every now and then. Nobody has one all the time or forever. Day after day, year after year, can go by without one. Only sometimes in rapture or in the fears of childhood it nests a little longer. Only sometimes in the wonderment that we are old. It rarely assists us during tiresome tasks, such as moving furniture, carrying suitcases, or traveling on foot in shoes too…… More »

Issue March 2007

A Greek Statue

With the help of people and other disasters, time has worked pretty hard on it. First it took away the nose, later the genitals, one by one fingers and toes, with the passing of years arms, one after the other, right thigh and left thigh, back and hips, head and buttocks, and what fell off, time broke into pieces, into chunks, into gravel, into sand. … More »

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