De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

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Jacek Dehnel:

He is a poet, writer and translator. He was born in 1980 in Gdańsk. He currently lives in Berlin.

A small house stands on a grain of poppyseed,

Dogs howl at a poppy moon.

Czesław Miłosz

I was eight or nine when knowledge’s two sides,

both ends of the telescope, resolved in my heart.

At last I understood: an atom encircled by

electrons and ellipses of planets orbiting

the sun on a chart

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Jacek Dehnel:

He is a poet, writer and translator. He was born in 1980 in Gdańsk. He currently lives in Berlin.

Translation: Karen Kovacik

Publish date: 22.07.2020

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Ida Dzik:

was born in September. She writes and sings, and studies at the faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw. She gets involved against industrial farming, inequalities and climate change. She believes in political art. She lives in the Bielany district of Warsaw.

in a former life
I crammed ripe blueberries into my mouth
separated the trash for recycling
we drew up wills
saved our money

and soaked in bubbles
limiting water from the tap

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

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