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Krystyna Dąbrowska:

a poet, translator and essayist born in 1979. She has published four books of poetry. She lives and works in Warsaw.

Three of us pretend to be priests

during the long break after gym.

In the changing room girls jostle in lines,

flushed

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Krystyna Dąbrowska:

a poet, translator and essayist born in 1979. She has published four books of poetry. She lives and works in Warsaw.

Translation: Karen Kovacik

Publish date: 16.10.2019

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Krystyna Dąbrowska:

a poet, translator and essayist born in 1979. She has published four books of poetry. She lives and works in Warsaw.

It’s clouding up in the heavens, he said, wrinkling his brow,
craning his neck. A friend from biochem.
That one short sentence hauls his face and name
through time.

Dirty water after a bath. The child calls it
Transmoocent! And then forgets.
Long after that moment has swirled down the drain,
the word suddenly returns.

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