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11 May23

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collections –
“Small Odysseys”
and
“Everyday Angels”
Waterloo Press;
 
“The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue”
Liquorice Fish / Cinnamon Press;
 
“I’ll Be Back Before You Know It”
Pighog Press;
 
“Syrena”
Redbeck Press;
 
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Integral/CLP (Bucharest)

 

 

 

On the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising

Ola says: Oh politicians, they love a dead hero.
All my life I’d wanted to build a shelter.
See, birch bark and mud plaited through
boughs of pine keep out the wind. I’d lean
my shelter of debris against a dry base
of spruce, save the lower twigs for tinder.
Those whose bodies lie under open sky,
I’d hide them. Wounded, dead, with no one
beside them, in war, in peacetime. But if I ask
Jula and Ola what poems should be about
they say: write about this day and the next,
about quarrelling then running for the bus,
about dropping your ticket, write about birches
if you must, but mostly write about kissing.
 

Maria Jastrzębska

in collection Small Odysseys, 2022, Waterloo Press,
ISBN 978-1-915241-05-4