She laughed aloud. It was good to feel laughter, to release it. To believe it was permitted. That many things might now, finally, be allowed. We are vulnerable when we feel that way. But not, in truth, any more than we live curtailed, held back, enraged, afraid. Everything is, indeed, always changing. And not usually […]
Tag Archives: Wislawa Szymborska
Living with Yes/No – Prose by Guy Gavriel Kay, Poems by Mahon and Szymborska
July 16, 2022 – 7:27 pm
The Unthinkable is Thinkable – Stephen Hawking and Wislawa Szymborska
March 27, 2018 – 4:20 pm
Somewhere in the cosmos, perhaps, intelligent life may be watching these lights of ours aware of what they mean, Hawking said. Or do our lights wander a lifeless cosmos, unseen beacons announcing that here on our rock, the universe discovered its existence? from CNBC, March 19th, 2018 Plato, or Why For unclear reasons under […]
An Alphabet of Poets – Z is for Zagajewski
June 3, 2012 – 10:45 pm
Try to Praise the Mutilated World Try to praise the mutilated world Remember June’s long days And wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow The abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world – You watched the stylish yachts and ships; One of them had a long trip […]