Tag Archives: Anna Swir

When Death Came She Was Ready – A Deathbed Poem by Anna Swir

July 16, 2018 – 11:23 pm

Tomorrow They Will Carve Me Death came and stood by me. I said: I am ready. I am lying in the surgery clinic in Krakow. Tomorrow they will carve me. There is much strength in me. I can live, can run, dance, and sing. All that is in me, but if necessary I will go. […]

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Life: Beautiful or Monstrous or Both? Three Poems by Swir, Mahon and Gilbert

July 16, 2018 – 8:28 am

Poetry Reading I’m curled into a ball like a dog that is cold. Who will tell me why I was born, why this monstrosity called life. The telephone rings. I have to give a poetry reading. I enter. A hundred people, a hundred pairs of eyes. They look, they wait. I know for what. I […]

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