AGNIESZKA WIKTOROWSKA-CHMIELEWSKA

AGNIESZKA WIKTOROWSKA-CHMIELEWSKA

SMALL THINGS

The rage clears the foreground, it grinds little things

until they calm down. The large ones rise in the secret

spaces of the imagination. Mandela has exhorted: there is no

future with no forgiveness. some people claim that dogs

live in the present, others that the evil done to them

stays in the animal forever. anyone can spit out

the internal stones and can also store them.

the gravity doesn't make a difference. the rage arouses

other senses, the forgiveness arouses lightness.

kicks, excitement, tin cups – the indifference

of the transitory frees from the smallness.

HERE

Yes, I was there. I saw these meadows, people

stuffed with happiness, the happiness full

of people. and I could change - this flash -

through all the letters of the alphabet, I say:

lightness or nothing, and still you would know.

like this, that you are and I am a God, but here,

most often, even I'm writing this poem,

the human wins in us.

CONTINUED

Shallow breath and again I'm going in

where it's darkest. Messiah is born

everyday and he dies everyday.

third day is the day of victory.

return to the game or welcome

in a distant messenger's house.

a house full of mirrors.

TRANSLATOR: KAROLINA WIKTOROWSKA

AGNIESZKA WIKTOROWSKA-CHMIELEWSKA

AGNIESZKA WIKTOROWSKA-CHMIELEWSKA – Polish poet, playwright, editor. The author of Poemik “and here, and here” awarded in the competition organised by the City of Krakow on a poetic's debut in 2014. And author “Szczęściodoły”, “Troika”, “Krąg ochronny”. Published in collective works and in literary magazines.